2 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
*Minor differences ignored. Grouped by changes, with first version listed as example.
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and (a) six hundred to oversee them.
(a) 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).
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men,.... Of whom, and the difference of the last number in this text from 1-Kings 5:15, see the notes there. See Gill on 1-Kings 5:15. See Gill on 1-Kings 5:16.
*More commentary available at chapter level.