17, 18 [16, 17, Heb.] (cp. 2). Bearers and Hewers<\/p>\n
17<\/strong>. David his father<\/em> ] See 1Ch 22:2<\/span>.<\/p>\n 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 Jdg 1:28<\/span>, Jdg 1:30<\/span>, Jdg 1:33<\/span>, Jdg 1:35<\/span>, 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.<\/P> <\/p>\n 2Ch 2:17-18<\/span><\/p>\n And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Naturalisation of foreigners<\/strong><\/p>\n Strangers in the city<\/strong><\/p>\n .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wherewith David his father had numbered them; <\/B>for David had not only numbered his own people, for which he smarted, 2Sa 24<\/span>; but afterward he numbered the strangers, not out of vanity, but that Solomon might have a true account of them, and employ them about his buildings, as he saw fit. Yet Solomon thought fit to number them again, because death might have made a considerable alteration among them since Davids numbering of them; and it behoved him to have an exact account of them. <\/P> <\/p>\n 17, 18. Solomon numbered all thestrangers,<\/B> c.(See on 1Ki 5:13<\/span>1Ki 5:18<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel<\/strong>,…. Which, according to Kimchi, were the remains of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites, see 2Ch 8:8<\/span>, 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:<\/p>\n after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them<\/strong>; not at the time Israel was numbered by him, but in order to provide workmen for the building of the temple, 1Ch 22:2<\/span>,<\/p>\n and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and six hundred<\/strong>; men able to bear burdens, and hew timber.<\/p>\n In 2Ch 2:17<\/span> and 2Ch 2:18<\/span> the short statement in 2Ch 2:2<\/span> as to Solomon’s statute labourers is again taken up and expanded. Solomon caused all the men to be numbered who dwelt in the land of Israel as strangers, viz., the descendants of the Canaanites who were not exterminated, “according to the numbering ( occurs only here) as his father David had numbered them.” This remark refers to 1Ch 22:2<\/span>, where, however, it is only said that David commanded the strangers to be assembled. But as he caused them to be assembled in order to secure labourers for the building of the temple, he doubtless caused them to be numbered; and to this reference is here made. The numbering gave a total of 153,000 men, of whom 70,000 were made bearers of burdens, 80,000 , i.e., probably hewers of stone and wood , i.e., on Lebanon, and 3600 foremen or overseers over the workmen, , to cause the people to work, that is, to hold them to their task. With this cf. 1Ki 5:15<\/span>., where the number of the overseers is stated at 3300. This difference is explained by the fact that in the Chronicle the total number of overseers, of higher and lower rank, is given, while in the book of Kings only the number of overseers of the lower rank is given without the higher overseers. Solomon had in all 550 higher overseers of the builders (Israelite and Canaanite), – cf. 1Ki 9:23<\/span>; and of these, 250 were Israelites, who alone are mentioned in 2Ch 8:10<\/span>, while the remaining 300 were Canaanites. The total number of overseers is the same in both accounts, – 3850; who are divided in the Chronicle into 3600 Canaanitish and 250 Israelitish, in the book of Kings into 3300 lower and 550 higher overseers (see on 1Ki 5:16<\/span>). It is, moreover, stated in 1Ki 5:12<\/span>. that Solomon had levied a force of 30,000 statute labourers from among the people of Israel, with the design that a third part of them, that is, 10,000 men, should labour alternately for a month at a time in Lebanon, looking after their own affairs at home during the two following months. This levy of workmen from among the people of Israel is not mentioned in the Chronicle.<\/p>\n See note on 1Ki 5:13<\/span><\/p>\n (17) All the strangers.<\/strong>The indigenous Canaanite population. (Comp. the use of the term in Gen. 23:4<\/span>; Exo. 22:21<\/span>; Lev. 17:8<\/span>.)<\/p>\n After the numbering.<\/strong>The word sphr,<\/em> reckoning, census, occurs here only in the Old Testament.<\/p>\n Wherewith David his father.<\/strong>The former census of the native Canaanites, which had taken place by order of David, is briefly recorded in 1Ch. 22:2<\/span>. (Comp. 2Sa. 20:24<\/span>, and Adoram was over the levy, from which it appears that the subject population was liable to forced labour under David; comp. also 1Ki. 4:6<\/span>; 1Ki. 5:14<\/span>; 1Ki. 12:4-18<\/span>.)<\/p>\n And they were found.<\/strong>The total of the numbers here given is 153,600, which is the sum of the figures assigned in the next verse, viz., 70,000 + 80,000 + 8.600.<\/p>\n (17, 18) Solomons levy of Canaanite labourers. (A return to the subject of 2Ch. 2:2<\/span>.)<\/p>\n We may in some measure, form some faint idea of the wonderful structure of Solomon’s temple, which was finished in seven years, from the number of hands employed. But what is this to the grand thought of the temple of Jesus’ body! – Here, again, we find the great multitude of laborers were strangers, that is Gentiles. John’s view of the glories above was of the same kind. While he saw an hundred and forty and four thousand of Israel, he saw a multitude that no man could number, of the great varieties of the earth. Yes! blessed Jesus: the Father hath given thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and to be his salvation to the ends of the earth. Rev 7:9<\/span>Rev 7:9<\/span> ; Isa 49:6<\/span> .<\/p>\n 2Ch 2:17 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.<\/p>\n Ver. 17. After the numbering.<\/strong> ] See 1Ch 22:2<\/span> .<\/p>\n the strangers. See note on 2Sa 12:31, and compare 1Ch 22:2. <\/p>\n 2Ch 2:17-18<\/p>\n 2Ch 2:17-18<\/p>\n SOLOMON’S CENSUS OF HIS FORCED LABOR GANGS<\/p>\n “And Solomon numbered all the sojourners that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work.”<\/p>\n “After the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them” (2Ch 2:17). This means that Solomon’s numbering was sinful exactly as was David’s (1Ch 21:1-17).<\/p>\n There is no device by which this paragraph could be construed as the Chronicler’s compliment to king Solomon. In fact, right here we have the clue to what was wrong with David’s `numbering Israel’ (1Ch 22:2 f). Both he and Solomon were actually in the business of enslaving all of the aliens and sojourners in Israel, (descendants of the original Canaanites whom Israel did not drive out), for one purpose only, that of forcing them to labor in the building of the temple. Here is also the explanation of that total number given at the head of this chapter, namely, 150,000 workers and 3,600 overseers. The census came first, and Solomon compelled all those numbered to enter his forced labor gangs.<\/p>\n “To set the people at work” (2Ch 2:18). “This means to compel them to work. Probably like the Egyptian and Assyrian overseers of forced labor, these officers carried whips to quicken the movement of the sluggish.”<\/p>\n It was the brutal and heartless wickedness of Solomon in this very particular that precipitated the rebellion of the ten northern tribes in the reign of Solomon’s son Rehoboam. It happened, when Rehoboam sent the hated slave-driver Adoram to negotiate with the dissatisfied northern tribes (1Ki 12:18). (See our further comment on this in 1Kings.)<\/p>\n E.M. Zerr:<\/p>\n 2Ch 2:17-18. The strangers were the foreigners who were scattered throughout the country of Israel. They had been enjoying the protection and other benefits of the country, now Solomon had them registered for service in his building project. He divided them into proper distribution for his service. There were three groups, those who worked the material, those who moved it, and those who supervised the work.<\/p>\n numbered: 2Ch 2:2, 2Ch 8:7, 2Ch 8:8, 1Ki 5:13-16, 1Ki 9:20, 1Ki 9:21 <\/p>\n the strangers: Heb. the men the strangers <\/p>\n after the numbering: 1Ch 22:2 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Jos 9:21 – let them 1Ki 5:15 – threescore<\/p>\n 2Ch 2:17. Solomon numbered all the strangers For David had not only numbered his own people, but afterward the strangers, that Solomon might have a true account of them, and employ them about his buildings. Yet Solomon numbered them again, because death might have made a considerable alteration among them since Davids numbering.<\/p>\n And Solomon numbered all the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. 17, 18 [16, 17, Heb.] (cp. 2). Bearers and Hewers 17. David his father ] See 1Ch … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 2:17”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I. <\/strong>A good government will tend to make a country attractive to foreigners.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>Foreigners thus attracted are amenable to the laws of the state.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>Thus protected, they may contribute materially to the enrichment of a state by the importation of foreign industries. Silk-weavers of Spitalfields.<\/p>\n
V. <\/strong>Be kind to strangers. (Bibical Museum<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I.<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>Strangers in a city are in danger from the temptation to explore the underground life of the community. I believe that three-fourths of the young men of our cities are ruined for the simple reason that they went to look at iniquity. In 1794, during the Reign of Terror in Paris, there were people who, to hide from their persecutors, got into the sewers under the <\/strong>city, and went on mile after mile amid the stifling atmosphere, poisoned and exhausted, coming out after a while at the river Seine, where they washed and breathed again the pure air. But, alas! that so many men who attempt to explore underground New York life never come to a river Seine, where they can wash, and they die horribly in the sewers. I stand on a mountain of Colorado, six thousand feet high. There is a man standing beneath me who says, I see a peculiar shelving to this rock, and he bends towards it. I say, Stop, you will fall. He says, No danger; I have a steady hand and foot, and see a peculiar kind of moss. I say, Stand back; but he says, I am not afraid; and he bends farther and farther, and after a while his head whirls and his feet slip–and the eagles know not that it is the macerated flesh of a man they are picking at, but it is. So I have seen men come to the very verge of the life of this city, and they look away down in it. They say, Dont be cowardly. Let us go down. They look farther and farther. I warn them to stand back; but Satan comes behind them, and while they are swinging over the verge, pushes them off. People say they were naturally bad. They were not? They were engaged in exploration. No man can afford to sail so near the coast of eternal fire for the purpose of discovering how hot it is. Stand off from that exploration. If you are a good swimmer, and you see a man drowning, leap for him and bring him ashore; but if you are merely going to jump in to see him drown, stand back.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>Strangers in a city are in danger from the temptation to desecrate the Sabbath. There is not one in ten who knows how to keep the Lords day when he is away from home and absent from all Christian influences.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>Strangers in a city are not safe without Christian restraint. (T<\/em>. De Witt Talmage<\/em>.)<\/p>\n
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Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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