2 Chronicles 2:2

2:2 (2:1) Solomon had3 70,000 common laborers4 and 80,000 stonecutters5 in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors.6

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3	tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
4	tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
5	tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
6	tc The parallel text of MT in 1 Kgs 5:16 has “thirty-six hundred,” but some Greek mss there read “thirty-six hundred” in agreement with 2 Chr 2:2, 18. tn Heb “and 3,600 supervisors over them.”