2 Crónicas 2:18

A Biblia Sagrada

E designou deles setenta mil carregadores, e oitenta mil cortadores na montanha; como tambm trs mil e seiscentos inspetores, para fazerem trabalhar o povo.

Parallel Translations

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Designou deles setenta mil para levarem as cargas, oitenta mil para talharem pedras nas montanhas, como tambm trs mil e seiscentos para dirigirem o trabalho do povo.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
E fez deles setenta mil carreteiros e oitenta mil cortadores na montanha, como tambm trs mil e seiscentos inspetores, para fazerem trabalhar o povo.

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.