2 Chronicles 2:18
Context2:18 He designated 1 70,000 as common laborers, 2 80,000 as stonecutters 3 in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work. 4
2 Chronicles 29:32
Context29:32 The assembly brought a total of 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs as burnt sacrifices to the Lord, 5
2 Chronicles 36:21
Context36:21 This took place to fulfill the Lord’s message delivered through Jeremiah. 6 The land experienced 7 its sabbatical years; 8 it remained desolate for seventy years, 9 as prophesied. 10
2 Chronicles 2:2
Context2:2 (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


[2:18] 2 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
[2:18] 3 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
[2:18] 4 tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”
[29:32] 5 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
[36:21] 9 tn Heb “to fulfill the word of the
[36:21] 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.
[36:21] 12 sn Concerning the seventy years see Jer 25:11.
[36:21] 13 tn Heb “all the days of the desolation it rested to fulfill the seventy years.”
[2:2] 13 tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
[2:2] 14 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”
[2:2] 15 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
[2:2] 16 tc The parallel text of MT in 1 Kgs 5:16 has “thirty-six hundred,” but some Greek