Scripture · Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2:18
2 Chronicles 2:18 is verse 18 of 2 Chronicles chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.
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2 Chronicles 2:16–18 · Berean Standard Bible
16 We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”
17 Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.
18 Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 2Hebrew words
וַיַּ֨עַשׂand he appointedמֵהֶ֜םof themשִׁבְעִ֥יםseventyאֶ֙לֶף֙thousandסַבָּ֔לburden-bearer[s]וּשְׁמֹנִ֥יםand eightyאֶ֖לֶףthousandחֹצֵ֣בstone-cutter[s]בָּהָ֑רin the hill countryוּשְׁלֹ֤שֶׁתand threeאֲלָפִים֙thousand<s>וְשֵׁ֣שׁand sixמֵא֔וֹתhundred<s>מְנַצְּחִ֖יםoverseersלְהַעֲבִ֥ידto compel to laborאֶת<obj.>הָעָֽםthe people
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