2 Chronicles 2:18

2:18 He designated 70,000 as common laborers, 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work.

2 Chronicles 29:32

29:32 The assembly brought a total of 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs as burnt sacrifices to the Lord,

2 Chronicles 36:21

36:21 This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. The land experienced its sabbatical years; it remained desolate for seventy years, as prophesied. 10 

2 Chronicles 2:2

2:2 (2:1) Solomon had 11  70,000 common laborers 12  and 80,000 stonecutters 13  in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors. 14 


tn Heb “made.”

tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).

tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”

tn Heb “and the number of burnt sacrifices which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs; for a burnt sacrifice to the Lord were all these.”

tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah.”

10 tn Or “accepted.”

11 sn According to Lev 25:4, the land was to remain uncultivated every seventh year. Lev 26:33-35 warns that the land would experience a succession of such sabbatical rests if the people disobeyed God, for he would send them away into exile.

12 sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.

13 tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.”

13 tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

14 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

15 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).

16 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.