KJV 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.
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2 Chronicles 2:18
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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
WEB World English Bible
He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
ASV American Standard Version
And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and he maketh of them seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers, to cause the people to work.
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 2
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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וַיַּ֨עַשׂH6213 · a.sahto make: doמֵהֶ֜םH9038 · hemthemשִׁבְעִ֥יםH7657 · shiv.imseventyאֶ֙לֶף֙H505 · e.lephthousandסַבָּ֔לH5449 · sab.balburdenוּשְׁמֹנִ֥יםH8084 · she.mo.nimeightyאֶ֖לֶףH505 · e.lephthousandחֹצֵ֣בH2672 · cha.tsavto hewבָּהָ֑רH2022 · harmountain: mountוּשְׁלֹ֤שֶׁתH7969 · sha.loshthreeאֲלָפִים֙H505 · e.lephthousandוְשֵׁ֣שׁH8337 · sheshsixמֵא֔וֹתH3967 · me.ahhundredמְנַצְּחִ֖יםH5329 · na.tsachto conductלְהַעֲבִ֥ידH5647 · a.vadto serveאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָעָֽם׃H5971 · ampeople
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