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How many overseers did Solomon have?

Biblical Passages

1 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.

2 Chronicles 2:18
And he set threescore 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.

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Current problemHow many overseers did Solomon have?
Book1 KingsBook2 ChroniclesTypeContradiction