2 Chronicles 2:17

Contextual Overview

¹¹Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon: "Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you their king." ¹¹ Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon: "Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king." ¹¹Then Huram king of Tyre said in a letter sent to Solomon: "Because Yahweh loves His people, He has given you to be king over them." ¹¹ Then Huram, king of Tyre, answered in a letter sent to Solomon: "Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king over them." ¹¹ And Hiram ye king of Tyre aunswered in writing, whiche he sent to Solomon: Because the Lorde hath loued his people, therefore hath he made thee king ouer them. ¹¹ And Huram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Jehovah loved his people, he made thee king over them. ¹¹ Then Hiram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon: 4 Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you king over them. ¹¹ And Hiram the king of Tyre answered in writing, and sent to Solomon, Because Jehovah loves His people, He has given you as king over them. ¹¹ Then Hiram answered Solomon and sent this message to him: "Solomon, the Lord loves his people. That is why he chose you to be their king." ¹¹ Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

numbered: 2 Chronicles 2:2, 2 Chronicles 8:7, 2 Chronicles 8:8, 1 Kings 5:13-16, 1 Kings 9:20, 1 Kings 9:21

the strangers: Heb. the men the strangers

after the numbering: 1 Chronicles 22:2

Reciprocal: Joshua 9:21 - let them 1 Kings 5:15 - threescore

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.

Genesis 2:1
The heauens also & the earth were finisshed, & all the hoast of them.

Genesis 2:1
So the earth, the sky, and everything in them were finished.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 2:1
Therfor heuenes and erthe ben maad perfit, and al the ournement of tho.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heauens and the earth were finished, and all the hoste of them.

Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 workmen for the building of the temple, 1 Chronicles 22:2,

and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and six hundred; men able to bear burdens, and hew timber.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.