And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
These were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people. The number of chief officers is stated, 1 Kings 5:16, to have been 3,300; in 2 Chronicles 2:18, they are declared to have been 3,600; whereas here they are reckoned at the small number of 250. There is no way of reconciling these discrepancies, except by supposing there is an error in the numerical letters, which copyists were extremely liable to commit; or to imagine, with Poole, that 250 of these officers were all that were on actual duty at one time.