It seems that the two accounts of these deputies in First Kings and Second Chronicles differed only in methods of classification, the first listing 3,300 plus 550 for a total of 3,850 (1 Ki. 5:16; 9:23), and the second giving 3,600 plus 250, which also totals 3,850. (2 Chron. 2:17, 18; 8:10)