2:18a Solomon made 70,000 of them porters,

He chose seventy thousand of them to be bearers,
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He took seventy thousand (70,000) of them to carry loads.

2:18b 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,

eighty thousand as stonemasons in the mountains
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He took eighty thousand (80,000) to cut stone in the mountains.

2:18c and 3,600 supervisors.

and three thousand six hundred to supervise these workers.
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And he took three thousand six hundred (3,600) to direct the workers and to keep them working.

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