2 Chronicles 27:4

27:4 He built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.

2 Chronicles 34:6

34:6 In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins ¹  around them,

2 Chronicles 2:18

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

2 Chronicles 13:4

13:4 Abijah ascended Mount Zemaraim, in the Ephraimite hill country, and said: “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel!

2 Chronicles 2:2

2:2 (2:1) Solomon had ⁶  70,000 common laborers ⁷  and 80,000 stonecutters ⁸  in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors. ⁹ 

2 Chronicles 3:1

The Building of the Temple

3:1 Solomon began building the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem ¹⁰  on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan ¹¹  the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 33:15

33:15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.

[34:6]  ¹ tn “In their ruins” is the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text.

[2:18]  ¹ tn Heb “made.”

[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.”

[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.

[3:1]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[3:1]  ² tn In 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (“Aravna”; traditionally “Araunah”). The form of the name found here also occurs in 1 Chr 21:15; 18-28.