And Solomon told out seventy thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand men to hew stones in the mountain, and three thousand and [a]six hundred to oversee them.

And Solomon sent to [b]Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou hast done to David my father, and didst (A)send him cedar trees to build him an house to dwell in so do to me.

Behold, I build an house unto the Name of the Lord my God, to sanctify it unto him, and to burn sweet incense before him, and for the continual showbread, and for the burnt offerings of the morning and evening, on the Sabbath days, and in the new months, and in the solemn feasts of the Lord our God: this is a perpetual thing for Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:2 Which is to be understood of all sorts of officers and overseers: for else the chief officers were but 3300, as in 1 Kings 5:16.
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:3 Or, Hiram.

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