Discovery Box2 Chronicles 34:13 
Context34:13 supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. 1 Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.
2 Chronicles 2:2
Context2:2 (2:1) Solomon had 2 70,000 common laborers 3 and 80,000 stonecutters 4 in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors. 5
1 tn Heb “[were] over the laborers and were directing every doer of work for work assignment and work assignment.”
2 tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
3 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
4 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
5 tc The parallel text of MT in 1 Kgs 5:16 has “thirty-six hundred,” but some Greek
tn Heb “and 3,600 supervisors over them.”
