2 Chronicles 2:18
16 We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”
17 Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.
Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
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- BSB
- Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- KJV
- And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
- WEB
- He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to assign the people their work.
- ASV
- And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
- DARBY
- And he set seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be stone-masons in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people to work.
- BLB
- And he made of them seventy thousand porters, and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to make the people work.
- ÅB
- Av dem gjorde han sytti tusen til bærere og åtti tusen til stenhuggere på fjellene og tre tusen og seks hundre til oppsynsmenn, som skulle holde folket til arbeid.
- OTB
- Han utnevnte sytti tusen av dem til å bære byrder,
åtti tusen til å hugge stein i fjellene,
og 3 600 tilsynsmenn til å lede folket som gjorde arbeidet. - B1930
- Av dem gjorde han sytti tusen til bærere og åtti tusen til stenhuggere på fjellene og tre tusen og seks hundre til opsynsmenn, som skulde holde folket til arbeid.
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2 Chronicles 2:2
So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
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