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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 2:18 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ch 2:18 |
King James |
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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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
On the numbers, see the Kg1 5:16 note.
To set the people a work - Or, "to set the people to work" - i. e., to compel them to labor. Probably, like the Egyptian and Assyrian overseers of forced labor, these officers carried whips or sticks, with which they quickened the movements of the sluggish. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Hewers in the mountains - He would not employ the free - born Israelites in this drudgery, but the strangers that were proselytes, who having no lands, applied themselves to trades, and got their living by their industry or ingenuity. |
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.