Holier Than Thou - Biblical Contradictions

How many foremen did Solomon have to oversee the building of the temple -- 3,300 or 3,600?

1 Kings 5:15-16, "Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills, as well as thirty-three hundred foremen who supervised the project and directed the workmen."

2 Chronicles 2:18, "He assigned 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working."

According to 1 Kings chapter 5 and 2 Chronicles chapter 2, both agree that Solomon had 70,000 carriers and 80,000 stonecutters for the building of the temple, however, 1 Kings records the number of foremen overseeing the job as 3,300, while 2 Chronicles records the number of foremen as 3,600.

"Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." (Ecclesiastes 7:3-4, KJV)

"Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 8:15, KJV)