2 Chronicles 8:10

2 Chronicles 8:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And these were the chief of king Solomon’s officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
• New International Version (NIV)They were also King Solomon’s chief officials—two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, 250, who exercised authority over the people.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And others were chiefs of the officials of King Solomon: two hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people.

Context of 2 Chronicles 8:10

8their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel had not destroyed, upon them did Solomon impose tribute-service until this day. 9But of the children of Israel, of them did Solomon make no bondmen for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and his horsemen. And these were the chief of king Solomon's superintendents, two hundred and fifty, that ruled over the people. 11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house which he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the [places] are holy to which the ark of Jehovah has come. 12Then Solomon offered up burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch;

2 Chronicles 8:10 word by word

וְאֵ֨לֶּה שָׂרֵ֤י הַנִּצָּבִ֛ים אֲשֶׁר־לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים וּמָאתָ֑יִם הָרֹדִ֖ים בָּעָֽם׃Read the interlinear

• chiefשַׂרώar · rulerH8269
• kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• twoמֵאָהmê'âh mê'yâh · hundredH3967
• fiftyחֲמִשִּׁיםchămishshîym · fiftyH2572
• peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971

Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 8:10

• 2 Chronicles 2:18And he set seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be stone-masons in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people to work.
• 1 Kings 5:16besides the overseers whom Solomon had set over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
• 1 Kings 9:23These were the chief superintendents that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, that ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 8:10

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10On the number compare 1 Kings 5:16 note.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. two hundred and fifty that bare rule--(Compare 1Ki 9:23). It is generally agreed that the text of one of these passages is corrupt.Read the comment

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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 8

• 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
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings