2 Chronicles 2:2
Context2:2 (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 2:17
Context2:17 Solomon took a census 5 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
Context16:1 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. 6
2 Chronicles 35:8
Context35:8 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.


[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
[16:1] 9 tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”