2 Chronicles 2:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Solomon’s levy of Canaanite labourers. (A return to the subject of 2 Chronicles 2:2.)

2 Chronicles 2:17-18

17 And Solomon numbered all the strangersg that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

18 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.