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2 Chronicles 2:2

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So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

KJV

And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 2

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdom

on 2 Chronicles 2:1-2

Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom names both projects in one sentence before either begins, and Chronicles keeps that order through the whole account, temple named first though the palace took longer to raise in Kings' fuller telling. The labor force is numbered here at the very outset, seventy thousand bearers, eighty thousand hewers and thirty six hundred overseers, a count the parallel exposition at 1 Kings 5:15-16 already carries with its small variance. Chronicles states the double purpose and the workforce in the same breath, as one royal act rather than two.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

, &c., only here it is more largely set forth. The reasons why he makes this application to Huram are here more fully represented, for information to Huram as well as for inducement.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation

And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men,.... Of whom, and the difference of the last number in this text from 1Ki 5:15, see the notes there. See Gill on 1Ki 5:15. See Gill on 1Ki 5:16.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּסְפֹּ֨רand he counted

    vaiyisporH5608 →159 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֜הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • שִׁבְעִ֥יםseventy

    shivimH7657 →91 times

  • אֶ֙לֶף֙thousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • אִ֣ישׁman

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • סַבָּ֔לburden-bearer[s]

    sabalH5449 →5 times

  • וּשְׁמוֹנִ֥יםand eighty

    ushemonimH8084 →38 times

  • אֶ֛לֶףthousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • אִ֖ישׁman

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • חֹצֵ֣בstone-cutter[s]

    chotzevH2672 →25 times

  • בָּהָ֑רin the hill country

    baharH2022 →546 times

  • וּמְנַצְּחִ֣יםand overseers

    umenatzechimH5329 →10 times

  • עֲלֵיהֶ֔םover them

    ʾaleihemH5921 →5755 times

  • שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁתthree

    sheloshetH7969 →432 times

  • אֲלָפִ֖יםthousand<s>

    ʾalafimH505 →505 times

  • וְשֵׁ֥שׁand six

    vesheshH8337 →216 times

  • מֵאֽוֹת׃ פhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Chronicles: the study guide →Read 2 Chronicles 2 →

This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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