2:17 Solomon took a census 5 of all the male resident foreigners in the land of Israel, after the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 in all.
1 tn Heb “made.”
2 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
3 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
4 tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”
5 tn Heb “counted.”