15 Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,(A) 16 not including his 3,300[a] deputies(B) in charge of the work. They ruled over the people doing the work.

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  1. 1 Kings 5:16 Some LXX mss read 3,600; 2Ch 2:2,18

15 Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills, 16 as well as thirty-three hundred[a] foremen(A) who supervised the project and directed the workers.

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  1. 1 Kings 5:16 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Chron. 2:2,18) thirty-six hundred

[a]so he assigned 70,000 men as porters, 80,000 men as stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 as supervisors over them.(A)

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  1. 2 Chronicles 2:2 2Ch 2:1 in Hb

He conscripted 70,000 men as carriers and 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills and 3,600 as foremen over them.(A)

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