2 Chronicles 2:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Solomon took the number of all the men from strange lands who were living in Israel, as his father David had done; there were a hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred.

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  • 1 Chr 22:2 : 2 And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.
  • 2 Chr 2:2 : 2 And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.
  • 2 Chr 8:7-8 : 7 As for all the rest of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel: 8 Their men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day;
  • 1 Kgs 5:13-16 : 13 Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number; 14 And sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them. 15 Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains; 16 In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.
  • 1 Kgs 9:20-21 : 20 As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel; 21 Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.

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  • 2 Chr 2:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

    2 And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

  • 2 Chr 2:18
    86%

    18 Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

  • 1 Kgs 5:13-16
    4 verses
    82%

    13 Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;

    14 And sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them.

    15 Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

    16 In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.

  • 1 Kgs 20:15
    76%

    15 Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.

  • 1 Chr 21:5
    75%

    5 And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

  • 2 Chr 1:2
    74%

    2 And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.

  • 1 Kgs 9:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22 But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.

    23 These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.

  • 2 Chr 8:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9 But Solomon did not make use of the children of Israel as servants for his work; they were men of war, his chiefs and his captains, and captains of his war-carriages and his horsemen.

    10 Now these were the chief men in authority whom King Solomon had: two hundred and fifty of them, in authority over the people.

  • Num 2:32
    73%

    32 These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

  • Neh 7:60
    73%

    60 All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.

  • 2 Chr 1:14
    73%

    14 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

  • Num 1:46
    73%

    46 Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

  • 2 Sam 24:9
    73%

    9 And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

  • 2 Sam 18:1
    73%

    1 And David had the people who were with him numbered, and he put over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds.

  • 1 Kgs 10:26
    73%

    26 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 21:2
    72%

    2 And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.

  • Num 26:51
    72%

    51 Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

  • Num 4:40
    72%

    40 Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty.

  • 1 Kgs 8:5
    72%

    5 And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there, were with him before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

  • Ezra 2:65
    72%

    65 As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven: and they had two hundred men and women to make music.

  • 2 Chr 2:16
    72%

    16 And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.

  • Ezra 2:58
    72%

    58 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred and ninety-two.

  • 2 Sam 6:1
    72%

    1 And David got together all the fighting-men of Israel to the number of thirty thousand;

  • 1 Chr 12:23
    71%

    23 These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.

  • 2 Chr 26:12
    71%

    12 The heads of families, the strong men of war, were two thousand, six hundred.

  • Neh 7:67
    71%

    67 As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.

  • Num 4:44
    71%

    44 Who were numbered by families, were three thousand, two hundred.

  • 2 Chr 9:25
    71%

    25 Solomon had four thousand buildings for his horses and his war-carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 7:9
    71%

    9 And they were recorded by their generations, heads of their families, great men of war, twenty thousand, two hundred.

  • 1 Kgs 4:26
    71%

    26 And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.

  • Num 31:36
    71%

    36 And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

  • Num 2:23
    71%

    23 The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four hundred.

  • 2 Chr 5:6
    71%

    6 And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there with him, were before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

  • 1 Chr 23:4
    71%

    4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were judges and men of authority;

  • 1 Kgs 12:21
    70%

    21 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.

  • Num 4:36
    70%

    36 And the number of all these was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty.

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    70%

    8 And he had them numbered in Bezek: the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • 1 Chr 23:2
    70%

    2 And he got together all the chiefs of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

  • 2 Sam 24:2
    70%

    2 And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people.

  • 2 Chr 11:1
    70%

    1 And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.

  • Num 3:34
    70%

    34 Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    70%

    15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 2 Chr 7:5
    70%

    5 King Solomon made an offering of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people kept the feast of the opening of the house of God.

  • Num 1:27
    70%

    27 Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.