2 Chronicles 26:12

26:12 The total number of family leaders who led warriors was 2,600.

2 Chronicles 27:8

27:8 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 2:18

2:18 He designated¹ 70,000 as common laborers,² 80,000 as stonecutters³ in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work.⁴

2 Chronicles 9:13

Solomon’s Wealth

9:13 Solomon received 666 talents⁵ of gold per year,⁶

2 Chronicles 9:18

9:18 There were six steps leading up to the throne, and a gold footstool was attached to the throne.⁷ The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side.⁸

2 Chronicles 13:21

13:21 Abijah’s power grew; he had⁹ fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

2 Chronicles 27:1

Jotham’s Reign

27:1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.¹⁰ His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

2 Chronicles 28:1

Ahaz’s Reign

28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.¹¹ He did not do what pleased the Lord, in contrast to his ancestor David.¹²

2 Chronicles 2:2

2:2 (2:1) Solomon had¹³ 70,000 common laborers¹⁴ and 80,000 stonecutters¹⁵ in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors.¹⁶

2 Chronicles 2:17

2:17 Solomon took a census¹⁷ 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.

2 Chronicles 16:1

16:1 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah, and he established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah.¹⁸

2 Chronicles 35:8

35:8 His officials also willingly contributed to the people, priests, and Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the leaders of God’s temple, supplied 2,600 Passover sacrifices and 300 cattle.

¹tn Heb “made.”

²tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

³tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).

⁴tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”

¹tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold Solomon received annually was 44,822 lbs. (20,380 kg).

²tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 units of gold.”

¹tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:19 has instead “and the back of it was rounded on top.”

²tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”

¹tn Heb “lifted up for himself.”

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²tn Heb “and he did not do what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father.”

¹tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

²tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

³tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).

⁴tc 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.

¹tn Heb “counted.”

¹tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”