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2 Chronicles 2:16-18
Lexham English Bible
2 Chronicles 2:16-18
Lexham English Bible
16 And we ourselves will cut trees from Lebanon according to all your need, and we will bring them to you on rafts over the sea to Joppa, so that you may bring them up to Jerusalem.”
17 Then Solomon counted all the resident alien men who were in the land of Israel after the census that David his father had taken of them. And there were found one hundred and fifty-three thousand. 18 And he appointed from them seventy thousand to bear burdens,[a] eighty thousand to quarry[b] in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.
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- 2 Chronicles 2:18 Literally “carriers”
- 2 Chronicles 2:18 Literally “stone craftsmen”
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