2 Chronicles 2:10

2:10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors ¹  of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons ²  of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”

2 Chronicles 2:18

2:18 He designated ³  70,000 as common laborers, ⁴  80,000 as stonecutters ⁵  in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work. ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 8:10

8:10 These men worked for Solomon as supervisors; there were a total of 250 of them who were in charge of the people. ⁷ 

Nehemiah 4:10

4:10 Then those in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers ⁸  has failed! The debris is so great that we are unable to rebuild the wall.”

[2:10]  ¹ sn As a unit of dry measure a kor was roughly equivalent to six bushels (about 220 liters).

[2:10]  ² tn Heb “20,000 baths” (also a second time later in this verse). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so this was a quantity of about 120,000 gallons (440,000 liters).

[2:18]  ³ tn Heb “made.”

[2:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

[2:18]  ⁵ tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).

[2:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”

[8:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who belonged to the king, Solomon, 250, the ones ruling over the people.”

[4:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “burden-bearers.”