2 The number of Solomon’s workmen to build the Temple. 3 Solomon sendeth to Huram the King of Tyre for wood and workmen.

Then Solomon determined to build an house for the Name of the Lord, and an [a]house for his kingdom.

And Solomon told out seventy thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand men to hew stones in the mountain, and three thousand and [b]six hundred to oversee them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:1 Or, Palace.
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:2 Which is to be understood of all sorts of officers and overseers: for else the chief officers were but 3300, as in 1 Kings 5:16.

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