2 Chronicles 2:18

2 Chronicles 2:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And he made seventy thousand of them bearers of burdens, eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.

Context of 2 Chronicles 2:18

16We will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you on rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem.” 17Then Solomon took a count of all the aliens in the land of Israel, like the census that his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600. He assigned 70,000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 to quarry stone in the mountain, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.

2 Chronicles 2:18 word by word

וַיַּ֨עַשׂ מֵהֶ֜ם שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶ֙לֶף֙ סַבָּ֔ל וּשְׁמֹנִ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף חֹצֵ֣ב בָּהָ֑ר וּשְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת אֲלָפִים֙ וְשֵׁ֣שׁ מֵא֔וֹת מְנַצְּחִ֖ים לְהַעֲבִ֥יד אֶת־הָעָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And he setעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• threescore and tenשִׁבְעִיםshib‛îym · seventyH7657
• thousandאֶ֫לֶף'eleph · thousandH505
• bearers of burdensסַבָּלsabbâl · burdenH5449
• and fourscoreשְׁמֹנִיםshemônîym shemônîym · eightyH8084
• hewersחָצַבchâtsab châtsêb · to hewH2672
• in the mountainהַרhar · mountain: hill countryH2022
• and threeשָׁלֹשׁshâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh · threeH7969
• and sixשֵׁשׁshêsh shishshâh · sixH8337
• hundredמֵאָהmê'âh mê'yâh · hundredH3967
• overseersנָצַחnâtsach · to conductH5329
• to setעָבַד‛âbad · to serveH5647
• the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 2:18

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18On the numbers, see the 1 Kings 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.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-18The book of Kings states that people from the seven nations were forced into labor. No Israelites were forced to work; instead, they supervised the laborers (1 Kings 9:20–23).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 17-1817-18. Solomon numbered all the strangers, &c.--(See on 1Ki 5:13; 1Ki 5:18).Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Chronicles 2:18

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In the dictionaries

• Census
• Cut
• Graving
• Proselyte
• Solomon
• Hewer
• Overseer
• Silver
• Temple

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings