2 Chronicles 2:18
New English Translation
18 He designated[a] 70,000 as common laborers,[b] 80,000 as stonecutters[c] in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work.[d]
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- 2 Chronicles 2:18 tn Heb “appointed from them.”
- 2 Chronicles 2:18 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
- 2 Chronicles 2:18 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
- 2 Chronicles 2:18 tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”
2 Chronicles 2:18
New International Version
18 He assigned(A) 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.
2 Chronicles 2:18
King James Version
18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
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