2 Chronicles 2:17-18 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:11-18

Here we have, I. The return which Huram made to Solomon's embassy, in which he shows a great respect for Solomon and a readiness to serve him. Meaner people may learn of these great ones to be neighbourly and complaisant. 1. He congratulates Israel on having such a king as Solomon was (2 Chron. 2:11): Because the Lord loved his people, he has made thee king. Note, A wise and good government is a great blessing to a people, and may well be accounted a singular token of God's favour. He does not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:17

And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel ,.... Which, according to Kimchi, were the remains of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites, see 2 Chronicles 8:8 , yet not idolaters, or they would not have been suffered by David and Solomon to have dwelt in the land, but were such as were become proselytes of the gate: after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them ; not at the time Israel was numbered by him, but in order to provide... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:18

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 disposed of; 70,000 of them bearers of burdens, 80,000 of them hewers of wood, and 3,600 overseers of the workmen, in all 153,600; an emblem of the Gentiles employed in building the spiritual temple, the church, Zechariah 6:15 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:1-18

This chapter, in a homiletic point of view, invites attention to Those methods (or some of them) of religious enterprise which go to ensure success and to issue in real usefulness. For we may notice here— I. THE REPEATED RECORD , ON THE PART OF SOLOMON , OF HIS RESOLUTION OR DETERMINATION . "Solomon determined." The enterprise "of building a house to the Name of the Lord" had been set before him. He knew it had been in his father's mind. He had heard it in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:13-18

Lessons from the labourers. The interesting particulars we have of the labours of building the temple give us a variety of suggestions. I. THE VALUE OF A WISE INTERMINGLING . 1 . Of blood. The principal architect and engineer supplied by King Hiram was a man of mixed blood; his father was a man of Tyro, but his mother was a Jewess (see 1 Kings 7:14 ), and he appears to have been a man of unusual ability. The mixture of races is proved to be of a very distinct... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:17

Strangers . By these are meant those of the former inhabitants and possessors of the land, who had not been extirpated or driven out. Special regulations respecting them are recorded in 1:21-28 , 1:33-36 . But these had largely lapsed till, as it appears, David revived them rather trenchantly, and David is now followed by Solomon ( 2 Chronicles 8:7 , 2 Chronicles 8:8 ; 1 Kings 9:20 , 1 Kings 9:21 ). The very much milder enforcement of labour upon the Israelites themselves is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:18

Three thousand and six hundred . Adding to these the 250 of 2 Chronicles 8:10 , infra, the total 3850 of 1 Kings 5:16 is exactly reached. That total, however, is reached by a somewhat different classification, the division being into 3300 "strangers," and 500 "chief of the officers" ( 1 Kings 9:23 ). The explanation probably is that of the 3600 "stranger" overseers, the small proportion of 300 were of much higher grade in office than the rest, and were ranked by the writer in Kings... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 2:17

The strangers are the non-Israelite population of the holy land, the descendants (chiefly) of those Canaanites whom the children of Israel did not drive out. The reimposition of the bond-service imposed on the Canaanites at the time of the conquest Judges 1:28, Judges 1:30, Judges 1:33, Judges 1:35, but discontinued in the period of depression between Joshua and Saul, was (it is clear) due to David, whom Solomon merely imitated in the arrangements described in these verses. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 2:18

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. Probably, like the Egyptian and Assyrian overseers of forced labor, these officers carried whips or sticks, with which they quickened the movements of the sluggish. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 2:17

2 Chronicles 2:17. Solomon numbered all the strangers For David had not only numbered his own people, but afterward the strangers, that Solomon might have a true account of them, and employ them about his buildings. Yet Solomon numbered them again, because death might have made a considerable alteration among them since David’s numbering. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:11-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:1-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:13-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:17

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 2:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 2:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 2:18

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 2:17

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