2 Chronicles 2:17

Contextual Overview

¹¹Then King Hiram of Tyre wrote a letter and sent it to Solomon: ¹¹ Then Huram the king of Tzor answered in writing, which he sent to Shlomo, Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you king over them. ¹¹ Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the Lord hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them. ¹¹ Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon, "Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you king over them." ¹¹ Then Hiram king of Tyre answered Solomon with this letter: "Solomon, because the Lord loves his people, he chose you to be their king." ¹¹ King Huram of Tyre sent this letter to Solomon: "Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king." ¹¹Then Hiram, king of Tyre replied in a letter sent to Solomon: "Because the LORD loves His people, He has made you 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 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. ¹¹ Then Huram King of Tyrus answered in writing which he sent to Salomon, Because the Lorde hath loued his people, he hath made thee King ouer them.

Bible Verse Review
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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
The heavens and the eretz were finished, and all the host of them.

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

Genesis 2:1
And heaven and earth and all their array were finished.

Genesis 2:1
So the sky, the earth, and all that filled them were finished.

Genesis 2:1
The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.

Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts (inhabitants).

Genesis 2:1
And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their heavenly lights.

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

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

Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth and everything else were created.

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.