2 Cronica 2:18

Filipino Cebuano Bible

18 Ug iyang gilain ang kapitoan ka libo kanila nga magdadala sa mabug-at, ug kawaloan ka libo nga mga magpuputol sa kahoy sa mga kabukiran, ug totolo ka libo ug unom ka gatus ang mga magbalantay sa katawohan nga nagbuhat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

threescore: "As it is 2 Chronicles 2:2." 2 Chronicles 2:2

Reciprocal: Joshua 9:21 - let them 1 Kings 5:15 - threescore 1 Kings 9:23 - chief 2 Chronicles 8:8 - to pay 2 Chronicles 8:10 - two hundred 2 Chronicles 34:13 - the bearers Nehemiah 4:10 - bearers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.