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.
2 Chronicles 2:18 in other translations
| BSB | Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | 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. |
| 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. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | And he set seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people to work. |
What does 2 Chronicles 2:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 2:17-18
17-18. Solomon numbered all the strangers, &c.--(See on 1Ki 5:13; 1Ki 5:18).
2 Chronicles 2:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 2:18
- 2 Chronicles 2:2
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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Context
- 2 Chronicles 2:17
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
- 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.
2 Chronicles 2:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y señaló de ellos setenta mil para llevar cargas, y ochenta mil que cortasen en el monte, y tres mil y seiscientos por sobrestantes para hacer trabajar al pueblo. |
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| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er machte aus ihnen 70000 zu Lastträgern, und 80000 zu Steinhauern im Gebirge, und 3600 zu Aufsehern, um das Volk zur Arbeit anzuhalten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Fecitque ex eis septuaginta millia qui humeris onera portarent, et octoginta millia qui lapides in montibus cæderent: tria autem millia et sexcentos præpositos operum populi. |