besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
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besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
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Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
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(5-30) besides Solomon's chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people that wrought in the work.
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- 1 Kings 9:23 These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
- 2 Chronicles 2:2 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, masters of the work.
Or, masters of the work.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 5:16 Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which…
1Ki 5:16 Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which [were] over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
Ver. 16. Which ruled over the people.] And three hundred more to rule over these rulers, {2Ch 2:2} and all little enough to make the work to go forward as it should.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Whereof 3000 were set over the 150,000, expressed 1Ki…
Whereof 3000 were set over the 150,000, expressed 1Ki 5:15, each of these over 50 of them, and the odd 300 were set ever these 3000, each of these to have the oversight of ten of them, to take an account of the work from them. But in 2Ch 2:18, these overseers are said to be 3600.
Answ. The 300 added in 2Ch 2 might be a reserve, to supply the places of the other 3000; yea, or of the 3300; as any of them should be taken off from the work by death, or sickness, or weakness, or necessary occasions; which was a prudent provision, and not unusual in such-like cases. And so there were 3600 commissioned for the work, but only 3300 employed at one time; and therefore both computations may fairly stand together. Some learned men add, that those 3600 were strangers, which indeed is manifest from 2Ch 2:17; and that those 3330 were a distinct number of men, and Israelites, which were set over all the rest, both strangers and Israelites; who therefore are here called the
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chief of Solomon’s officers, and are said to rule over the workmen; whereas all that is said of those 3600, 2Ch 2:18, is, that they were overseers to set the people a work; which may deserve further consideration. Others say, that the 300 added in 2 Chron. were overseers of the Tyrian workmen in Mount Lebanon, and the rest in all other places; or that they were set over some particular and more curious and considerable parts of the work.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Besides the chief of Solomon's officers which were over…
Besides the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work,.... Over the whole work, preparatory for the building of the temple; though it seems chiefly to have respect to that of hewing the stones, and bringing them to the city:
three thousand and three hundred which ruled over the people that wrought in the work; to keep them to their work, and to see that they performed it well: in Ch2 2:18; they are said to be 3600, which is three hundred more than here; those three hundred are the chief officers mentioned in the former part of this verse, which were over the whole work, and even over the 3600 overseers, and with them made up the sum of 3600; so Jacob Leon (h) observes there were 3300 master workmen, and three hundred commanders over them all.
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(h) Relation of Memorable Things in the Temple, ch. 3. p. 14.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Three thousand &c. - Whereof three thousand were set…
Three thousand &c. - Whereof three thousand were set over the fifteen hundred thousand, expressed ver. 15, each of these, over fifty of them, and the odd three hundred were set over these three thousand, each of these to have the oversight of ten of them, to take an account of the work for them. But in 2 Chron. ii, 18, these overseers are said to be thirty-six hundred. The three thousand added in 2 Chron. ii, 2, might be a reserve, to supply the places of the other three thousand: yea, or of the thirty-three hundred, as any of them should be taken off from the work by death, or sickness, or weakness, or necessary occasions; which was a prudent provision, and not unusual in like cases. And so there were thirty-six hundred commissioned for the work, but only thirty-three hundred employed at one time; and therefore both computations fairly stand together.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. Besides - three thousand and three hundred…
Verse 16. Besides - three thousand and three hundred which ruled over the people] In the parallel place, 2Ch 2:18, it is three thousand six hundred. The Septuagint has here the same number.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Comparing this verse and 1Ki 9:23 with 2Ch 2:18;…
Comparing this verse and 1Ki 9:23 with 2Ch 2:18; 2Ch 8:10, the entire number of the overseers will be seen to be stated by both writers at 3,850; but in the one case nationality, in the other degree of authority, is made the principle of the division.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Three hundred. In 2 Paralipomenon (ii. 2., and 18,)…
Three hundred. In 2 Paralipomenon (ii. 2., and 18,) we read six hundred; (Haydock) as there are 300 superior officers included. (Calmet) (Menochius) (Sa, &c.) --- But these 3600 are all overseers. (Haydock)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Besides the chief of Solomon’s officers — Which…
16. Besides the chief of Solomon’s officers — Which numbered in all 550, (chap. 1Ki_9:23,) of which, however, 250 seem to have been Israelites, (2Ch_8:9-10,) and the other 300 foreigners. These last, added to the 3,300 mentioned in this verse, make up the 3,600 of 2Ch_2:18.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. three thousand and three hundred] This number differs…
16. three thousand and three hundred] This number differs by 300 from that given in the Chronicles. If the total of the census of the strangers there given be correct, then we ought to read 3600 as the number of the overseers. The LXX. has τρεῖς χιλιάδες καὶ ἑξακόσιοι, and adds that they were employed for 3 years in preparing the stones and the wood.
The stone work was most probably given to the levy of strangers and the work of cutting and dressing timber to the 10,000 Israelites who came month and month about. The word rendered ‘hewers’ in 1Ki_5:15 is so regularly used of workers in stone, that the LXX. nearly always renders the verb by λατομέω and its participle by λατόμοι (stone cutters).
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which ruled over the people] The root-sense of the verb, which is ‘to trample on,’ or ‘break down,’ gives the idea that the ruling was after the fashion of taskmasters.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) The chief of Solomon’s officers we should certainly…
(16) The chief of Solomon’s officers we should certainly have supposed to have been taken from the Israelites (as clearly were the 550 named in 1Ki_9:23). But the passage in Chronicles (2Ch_2:18)—reckoning them at 3,600—seems to imply that they were, like the overseers of Israel in the Egyptian bondage (Exo_5:14-15), taken from the subject races.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Beside without counting the chief of Solomon"s officers Heb.…
Beside without counting the chief of Solomon"s officers Heb. the princes of the overseers, i.e., the princes who acted as overseers, principes qui praefecti erant (Vatabl.) which were over the work three thousand and three hundred This large number proves that the "chiefs of the overseers" cannot be meant. Were all the 3, 300 superior officers, there must have been quite an army of subalterns. But we read of none. In 1Ki_9:23, an additional number of 550 "princes of the overseers" (same expression) is mentioned, making a total of 3, 850 superintendents, which agrees with the total stated in the Book of Chronicles. It is noteworthy, however, that the details differ from those of the Kings. In 2Ch_2:17 we read of a body of 3, 600 "overseers to set the people a work," whilst in. 1Ki_8:10 mention is made of 250 "princes of the overseers." These differences result, no doubt, from difference of classification and arrangement (J.H. Michaelis) In Chronicles the arrangement is one of race, i.e., 3, 600 aliens (cf. 2Ch_2:18) and 250 Israelites, whilst in Kings it is one of status, i.e., 3, 300 inferior and 550 superior officers. It follows consequently that all the inferior and 300 of the superior overseers were Canaanites which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 5:16 3,600 foremen: In 2 Chronicles (2 Chr 2:2,…
5:16 3,600 foremen: In 2 Chronicles (2 Chr 2:2, 17-18; 8:10) the foremen total 3,600 non-Israelite and 250 Israelite chief supervisors. The numbers in the Hebrew text of 1 Kgs 5:16 and 9:23 are 3,300 foremen and 550 chief supervisors. It is possible that 250 of the chief supervisors were Israelites, with 300 non-Israelites holding the same rank.
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