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.
Ver. 18. And he set threescore and ten thousand of them.] Hereby were shadowed out the several offices in Christ's Church: this St Paul setteth forth by the similitude of the diffferent members in man's body, &c.
To set the people a work.] Heb., To make them to pass, sc., from one business to another.