2 Chronicles 2

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threescore and ten thousand] And ver. 17, 18. Solomons workmen in Lebanon were 150000. viz. 70000. Bearers, and 80000. Hewers; All of strangers dwelling in the Land of Israel. And his Overseers of them were 3600. Such strangers likewise And so each of them were over fourty two workmen or thereabout.

And three hundred of these Overseers, which are more then those set downe, 1 King. V. 16. might be extraordinary, in case any of the Ordinary should faile, by sicknesse, death, or any other way. And thus, the Ordinarie Overseers would be one over fourty five workmen or thereabout. Or rather, those three thousand three hundred, 1 King. V. 16. were Israelites & the chief of Solomons Officers, added to the other three thousand sixe hundred Overseers, and set partly as with them, so over them, and partly over the whole work. And so each Overseer would be over twenty one workmen at least.

Those sixteen thousand a moneth by course, 1 King. V. 13, 14. are by some added to the Overseers: And so there would be one Overseer to eight workmen. But they may seeme rather to be the better sort of workmen of the Israelites, joyned to King Hirams workmen, 1 King. V. 6. Those Officers, viz. five hundred and fifty, 1 King. 9. 23. seeme to be the chief of the Officers that were over Solomons other words, when he builded his owne house, and that for Pharaohs daughter, and all his other Buildings (besides the Temple) ver. 15,—19. 2 Chron. VIII. 1,—6.

These bare rule over the people that wrought in those works. And the two hundred and fifty, 2 Chron. VIII. 10. seeme to be chief of his Officers that bare rule over the people, i. e. over those Canaanites that Solomon had made Tributaries, ver. 7, 8. to rule them. And so iffering from the former five hundred and fifty.

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of beaten wheat] The difference of the Food and Measures of them, given by Solomon here, over and above that in 1 King. V. 11. may stand in this, That the former was for King Hirams Court and houshold; And this here for his workmen in Lebanon.

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Bathes] See the Observations on Gen. XVIII. 6.

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of Huram my father] See the observations on 1 King. V. 1.

to Joppa] See the Observations on Jonah, I. 3.