2 Chronicles 2:2 Parallel Translations

Solomon drafted 70,000 men to carry heavy loads, 80,000 to quarry stones in the mountains, and 3,600 foremen.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And 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.

ASV:

And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

BBE:

And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

DBY:

And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred to superintend them.

ERV:

And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

JPS:

And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

WBS:

And Solomon numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

WEB:

Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

YLT:

and Solomon numbereth seventy thousand men bearing burden, and eighty thousand men hewing in the mountain, and overseers over them -- three thousand and six hundred.

2 Chronicles 2:2 Cross References

XREF:

1 Kings 5:15 Now Solomon had 70,000 transporters, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains,

1 Kings 5:16 besides Solomon's 3,300 chief deputies who were over the project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work.

2 Chronicles 2:18 He appointed 70,000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 to quarry stones in the mountains and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and {a} six hundred to oversee them.
(a) Which is to be understood of all sorts of officers and overseers: for else the chief officers were but 3300 as in 1Ki 5:16.

MHC:

2:1-18 Solomon's message to Huram respecting the temple, His treaty with Huram. - Solomon informs Huram of the particular services to be performed in the temple. The mysteries of the true religion, unlike those of the Gentile superstitions, sought not concealment. Solomon endeavoured to possess Huram with great and high thoughts of the God of Israel. We should not be afraid or ashamed to embrace every opportunity to speak of God, and to impress others with a deep sense of the importance of his favour and service. Now that the people of Israel kept close to the law and worship of God, the neighbouring nations were willing to be taught by them in the true religion, as the Israelites had been willing in the days of their apostacy, to be infected with the idolatries and superstitions of their neighbours. A wise and pious king is an evidence of the Lord's special love for his people. How great then was God's love to his believing people, in giving his only-begotten Son to be their Prince and their Saviour.

CONC:

Assigned 600 Bear 80000 Bearing Burden Burdens Carriers Carry Counted Cutters Cutting Eighty Foremen Fourscore Hew Hewers Hewing Hill Hills Hundred Loads Mountain Mountains Numbered Numbereth Oversee Overseers Quarry Seventy Six Solomon Stone Stonecutters Stone-masons Superintend Supervise Ten Thirty-six Thousand Threescore Transport

Assigned Bear Burdens Carriers Carry Conscripted Counted Country Cutters Cutting Eighty Foremen Fourscore Hew Hewers Hill Hills Hundred Loads Mountain Mountains Numbered Numbereth Oversee Overseers Seventy Six Solomon Stone Stonecutters Superintend Ten Thirty-Six Thousand Three Threescore

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