Discovery Box2 Chronicles 2:8 
Context2:8 Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum 1 trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept 2 at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants
2 Chronicles 2:18
Context2:18 He designated 3 70,000 as common laborers, 4 80,000 as stonecutters 5 in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work. 6
2 Chronicles 8:8
Context8:8 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews and they continue in that role to this very day. 7
2 Chronicles 8:16
Context8:16 All the work ordered by Solomon was completed, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid until it was finished; the Lord’s temple was completed.
2 Chronicles 10:18
Context10:18 King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, 8 the supervisor of the work crews, out after them, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to jump into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 9
2 Chronicles 13:10
Context13:10 But as for us, the Lord is our God and we have not rejected him. Aaron’s descendants serve as the Lord’s priests and the Levites assist them with the work. 10
1 tn This is probably a variant name for almug trees; see 9:10-11 and the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 10:11-12; cf. NLT. One or the other probably arose through metathesis of letters.
2 tn Heb “know.”
3 tn Heb “made.”
4 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
5 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
6 tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”
7 tn Heb “from their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel did not wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a work crew to this day.”
8 sn In the parallel account in 1 Kgs 12:18 this name appears as “Adoniram.”
9 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
10 tn Heb “and priests serving the
