2 Chronicles 2:18
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.
Context
This verse from 2 Chronicles Chapter 2 connects to 1 cross-reference. Solomon requests from Hiram of Tyre a skilled craftsman to work with skilled Judean craftsmen, plus cedar, cypress, and algum timber for the temple. Hiram sends Huram-abi, the son of a Tyrian man and a Danite woman, skilled in all …
Other Translations
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.
and he maketh of them seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers, to cause the people to work.
Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.