2 Chronicles 2:18

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On 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. Proba...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Preparations for the Building of the Temple (see notes on 1 Kings 5:5-18 ). Though the general narrative in the parallel passages is the same, the...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

set... a work . keep the people at work.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Solomon's Negotiations with Hiram This chapter substantially reproduces 1 Kings 5 , with some differences in numbers, names, and expressions.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

In the mountain ] probably the hill-country of Judah.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Solomon’s levy of Canaanite labourers. (A return to the subject of 2 Chronicles 2:2 .)
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And he set... — Literally, and he made seventy thousand of them bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand hewers in the mountains. This exactly agr...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

SOLOMON THE chronicler's history of Solomon is constructed on the same principles as that of David, and for similar reasons. The builder of the fi...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The king's devotion to the highest work of his life was, however, unhindered, and the second chapter gives us the story of how he commenced his prepa...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We may in some measure, form some faint idea of the wonderful structure of Solomon's temple, which was finished in seven years, from the number of ha...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS IN the view here given of Solomon's temple, the workmen, and the materials taken and gathered from afar, I would contemplate how Solomon...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he set threescore and ten thousand of them ,.... Which is repeated from 2 Chronicles 2:2 , to show how the above number of strangers were dispo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

To be hewers in the mountain He would not employ the free- born Israelites in this drudgery, but the strangers that were proselytes, who, having no...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

SOLOMON'S REQUEST FROM HIRAM (vv.1-10). As the Lord had foretold to David, He worked upon Solomon's heart to make him determine to build both a...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Solomon's Treaty with Hiram. B. C. 1015. ...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] This chapter corresponds with 1 Kings 5 . It comprises preparations for building the temple ( 2 Chronicles 2:1-2 ); Solomon’s messa...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Chronicles 2:1 . A house. The word temple among the Jews, gradually obtained from the Gentiles. The Egyptians were the first that built temples;...
The Biblical Illustrator

And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel. Naturalisation of foreigners I. A good government will tend to make a c...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 2 Chronicles 2:1 In the Hebrew text this verse stands as the last of 2 Chronicles 1:1-14 . Determined . The Hebrew word is the...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Huram's Kind Answer
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, both to hew stones and...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 2:2
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hewers in the mountains — He would not employ the free — born Israelites in this drudgery, but the strangers that were proselytes, who having no la...

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.

Related Commentaries of 2 Chronicles 2:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Chronicles 2:18