2 Chronicles 2:18 - Exposition

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 with those overseers (250) of Solomon, who were probably Israelites.