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2 Chronicles 2:2

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2:2 (2:1) Solomon had 1  70,000 common laborers 2  and 80,000 stonecutters 3  in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors. 4 

2 Chronicles 13:3

Context
13:3 Abijah launched the attack with 400,000 well-trained warriors, 5  while Jeroboam deployed against him 800,000 well-trained warriors. 6 

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[2:2]  1 tn Heb “counted,” perhaps “conscripted” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[2:2]  2 tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

[2:2]  3 tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).

[2:2]  4 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.

[13:3]  5 tn Heb “and Abijah bound [i.e., began] the battle with a force of warriors, four hundred thousand chosen men.”

[13:3]  6 tn Heb “and Jeroboam arranged with him [for] battle with eight hundred thousand chosen men, strong warrior[s].”



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