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Hebrew Modern Translation

דברי הימים ב 2:17

ויספר שלמה כל האנשים הגירים אשר בארץ ישראל אחרי הספר אשר ספרם דויד אביו וימצאו מאה וחמשים אלף ושלשת אלפים ושש מאות׃

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aliens;   Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Strangers in Israel;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hiram or Huram;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Neighbor;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Census;   Proselyte;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Proselytes;   Stranger;   Temple;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Ships and Boats;   Solomon;   Tyre;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Census;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Sol'omon;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Stranger;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abigail;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[2:16] ויספר שלמה כל האנשים הגירים אשר בארץ ישראל אחרי הספר אשר ספרם דויד אביו וימצאו מאה וחמשים אלף ושלשת אלפים ושש מאות
Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[2:16] וַיִּסְפֹּ֣ר שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה כָּל־הָאֲנָשִׁ֤ים הַגֵּירִים֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אַחֲרֵ֣י הַסְּפָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר סְפָרָ֖ם דָּוִ֣יד אָבִ֑יו וַיִּמָּצְא֗וּ מֵאָ֤ה וַחֲמִשִּׁים֙ אֶ֔לֶף וּשְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֖ים וְשֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֹֽות ׃
Westminster Leningrad Codex
[2:16] וַיִּסְפֹּר שְׁלֹמֹה כָּל־הָאֲנָשִׁים הַגֵּירִים אֲשֶׁר בְּאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל אַחֲרֵי הַסְּפָר אֲשֶׁר סְפָרָם דָּוִיד אָבִיו וַיִּמָּצְאוּ מֵאָה וַחֲמִשִּׁים אֶלֶף וּשְׁלֹשֶׁת אֲלָפִים וְשֵׁשׁ מֵאֹֽות ׃

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

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.


 
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