KJV King James Version
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
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2 Chronicles 2:17
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
ASV American Standard Version
And Solomon numbered all the sojourners that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Solomon numbereth all the men, the sojourners who are in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father numbered them, and they are found a hundred and fifty thousand, and three thousand, and six hundred;
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 2
14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
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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וַיִּסְפֹּ֣רH5608 · sa.pharto recountשְׁלֹמֹ֗הH8010 · she.lo.mohSolomonכָּל־H3605 · kolallהָאֲנָשִׁ֤יםH582 · e.noshhumanהַגֵּירִים֙H1616 · gersojournerאֲשֶׁר֙H834 · a.sherwhichבְּאֶ֣רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelאַחֲרֵ֣יH310 · a.charafterהַסְּפָ֔רH5610 · se.pharnumberingאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichסְפָרָ֖םH5608 · sa.pharto recountדָּוִ֣ידH1732 · da.vidDavidאָבִ֑יוH1 · avfatherוַיִּמָּצְא֗וּH4672 · ma.tsato findמֵאָ֤הH3967 · me.ahhundredוַחֲמִשִּׁים֙H2572 · cha.mish.shimfiftyאֶ֔לֶףH505 · e.lephthousandוּשְׁלֹ֥שֶׁתH7969 · sha.loshthreeאֲלָפִ֖יםH505 · e.lephthousandוְשֵׁ֥שׁH8337 · sheshsixמֵאֽוֹת׃H3967 · me.ahhundred
Cross-references
1 Chronicles 22:2And David commanded to gather together the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.1 Kings 9:20-21[And] all the people [that were] left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which [were] not of the children of Israel,1 Kings 5:13-16And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.2 Chronicles 8:7-8[As for] all the people [that were] left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which [were] not of Israel,2 Chronicles 2:2And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
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