2 Chronicles 2:18

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.”

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Read 2 Chronicles 2:18 in the flow of 2 Chronicles2 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open 2 Chronicles2 to see the surrounding context.

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BSBPD

“Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Chronicles 2:18 — 1 related verse from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:2So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

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