2 Chronicles 2:18
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And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and three thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the people.

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Context
Hiram's Reply
17And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of Israel, after the numbering which David his father had made, and they were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred. 18And he set seventy thousand of them to carry burdens on their shoulders, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains: and three thousand and six hundred to be overseers of the work of the people.
Cross References
Joshua 9:21
But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing wood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things,

1 Kings 5:15
And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain:

2 Chronicles 2:2
And he numbered out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.

Lexicon
Solomon made
וַיַּ֨עַשׂ (way·ya·‘aś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

70,000 of them
שִׁבְעִ֥ים (šiḇ·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7657: Seventy (a cardinal number)

porters,
סַבָּ֔ל (sab·bāl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5449: Burden bearer

80,000 {}
וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים (ū·šə·mō·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8084: Eighty, eightieth

stonecutters
חֹצֵ֣ב (ḥō·ṣêḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2672: To cut, carve, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave

in the mountains,
בָּהָ֑ר (bā·hār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

and 3,600
וּשְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת (ū·šə·lō·šeṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7969: Three, third, thrice

supervisors.
מְנַצְּחִ֖ים (mə·naṣ·ṣə·ḥîm)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5329: To glitter from afar, to be eminent, to be permanent


Additional Translations
Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.And he set three score 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.

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.

And he made of them seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand hewers of stone, and three thousand six hundred taskmasters over the people.

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.

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 awork.

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.

He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.

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.
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