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| HOW MANY MEN OVERSAW THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE? |
| II Chronicles 2:2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men
to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three
thousand and six hundred to oversee them. (KJV)
I Kings 5:16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work. (KJV)
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| There were probably 300 men who were reservists, to replace the overseers who became ill or died. The author of 2 Chronicles counted these men, while the author of 1 Kings did not. Not a contradiction. |
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