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and they were found to be 153,600.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/2.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Solomon took a census of all foreigners in the land of Israel, like the census his father had taken, and he counted 153,600.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/2_chronicles/2.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Then Solomon counted all the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found 153,600.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/2_chronicles/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/2.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And Solomon numbered all the strangers that <i>were</i> 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/2_chronicles/2.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Then Solomon numbered all the aliens who <i>were</i> in the land of Israel, after the census in which David his father had numbered them; and there were found to be one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/2_chronicles/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Solomon counted all the foreigners who <i>were</i> in the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were found.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/2.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Solomon numbered all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were found.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/2_chronicles/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And Solomon numbered all the aliens who <i>were</i> in the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were found.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/2_chronicles/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Then Solomon numbered all the sojourners who <i>were</i> in the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were found.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/2_chronicles/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Then Solomon took a count of all the aliens in the land of Israel, like the census that his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/2_chronicles/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Solomon took a census of all the resident alien men in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had conducted, and the total was 153,600.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/2_chronicles/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Solomon took a census of all the foreign men in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had conducted, and the total was 153,600. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_chronicles/2.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/2_chronicles/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Solomon counted all the foreigners who were living in Israel, just as his father David had done when he was king, and the total was 153,600. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_chronicles/2.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/2_chronicles/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Solomon counted all the men who were foreigners in the land of Israel, as his father David had counted them. Solomon counted 153,600 foreigners.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/2_chronicles/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />King Solomon took a census of all the foreigners living in the land of Israel, similar to the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 resident foreigners. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/2_chronicles/2.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Solomon took a census of all the non-Israeli men who lived in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had taken, and 153,600 were counted. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/2_chronicles/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/2_chronicles/2.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Solomon took a census of all the male resident foreigners in the land of Israel, after the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 in all.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/2_chronicles/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_chronicles/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_chronicles/2.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/2_chronicles/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And Solomon numbers all the men, the sojourners who [are] in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which his father David numbered them, and they are found [to be] one hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_chronicles/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Solomon numbereth all the men, the sojourners who are in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father numbered them, and they are found a hundred and fifty thousand, and three thousand, and six hundred;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/2_chronicles/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And Solomon will number all the men, the strangers which are in the land of Israel, after the numbering which David his father numbered them; and they will be found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_chronicles/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And Solomon numbered all the proselytes in the land of Israel, after the numbering which David his father had made, and they were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/2_chronicles/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And so Solomon numbered all the new converts who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering that David his father had done, and they were found to be one hundred fifty thousand and three thousand six hundred.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_chronicles/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Thereupon Solomon took a census of all the alien men resident in the land of Israel (following the census David his father had taken of them); they were found to number one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_chronicles/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Then Solomon took a census of all the aliens who were residing in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had taken; and there were found to be one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/2_chronicles/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Then Solomon gathered together all the proselytes who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering of them which David his father had done; and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/2_chronicles/2.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And Solomon gathered all proselyte men who were in the land of Israel after the computation when David his father numbered them.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/2_chronicles/2.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/2_chronicles/2.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And Solomon gathered all the foreigners that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father numbered them; and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zGrb4955Tvs?start=408" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/2_chronicles/2.htm">Hiram's Reply</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">16</span>We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.” <span class="reftext">17</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/8010.htm" title="8010: šə·lō·mōh (N-proper-ms) -- David's son and successor to his throne. From shalowm; peaceful; Shelomah, David's successor.">Solomon</a> <a href="/hebrew/5608.htm" title="5608: way·yis·pōr (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To count, recount, relate. ">numbered</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/1616.htm" title="1616: hag·gê·rîm (Art:: N-mp) -- A sojourner. Or geyr; from guwr; properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner.">the foreign</a> <a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: hā·’ă·nā·šîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term.">men</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: bə·’e·reṣ (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">in the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">of Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/310.htm" title="310: ’a·ḥă·rê (Prep) -- The hind or following part. From 'achar; properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after.">following</a> <a href="/hebrew/5610.htm" title="5610: has·sə·p̄ār (Art:: N-ms) -- Enumeration, census. From caphar; a census.">the census</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5608.htm" title="5608: sə·p̄ā·rām (V-Qal-Perf-3ms:: 3mp) -- To count, recount, relate. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1: ’ā·ḇîw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Father. A primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application).">his father</a> <a href="/hebrew/1732.htm" title="1732: dā·wîḏ (N-proper-ms) -- Perhaps beloved one, a son of Jesse. Rarely; Daviyd; from the same as dowd; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse.">David had conducted,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: way·yim·mā·ṣə·’ū (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To attain to, find. ">and there were found to be</a> <a href="/hebrew/3967.htm" title="3967: mê·’āh (Number-fs) -- Hundred. Or metyah; properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction.">153,600 in all.</a> <a href="/hebrew/2572.htm" title="2572: wa·ḥă·miš·šîm (Conj-w:: Number-cp) -- Fifty. Multiple of chamesh; fifty."></a> <a href="/hebrew/505.htm" title="505: ’e·lep̄ (Number-ms) -- A thousand. Prop, the same as 'eleph; hence a thousand."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7969.htm" title="7969: ū·šə·lō·šeṯ (Conj-w:: Number-msc) -- A three, triad. Or shalosh; masculine shlowshah; or shloshah; a primitive number; three; occasionally third, or Thrice."></a> <a href="/hebrew/505.htm" title="505: ’ă·lā·p̄îm (Number-mp) -- A thousand. Prop, the same as 'eleph; hence a thousand."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8337.htm" title="8337: wə·šêš (Conj-w:: Number-fs) -- Masculine shishshah; a primitive number; six (see suws) beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. Sixth."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3967.htm" title="3967: mê·’ō·wṯ (Number-fp) -- Hundred. Or metyah; properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction."></a> </span><span class="reftext">18</span>Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/5-13.htm">1 Kings 5:13-16</a></span><br />Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel. / He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor. / Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/9-20.htm">1 Kings 9:20-22</a></span><br />As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)— / their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day. / But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slavery, because they were his men of war, his servants, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/4-6.htm">1 Kings 4:6</a></span><br />Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/4-7.htm">1 Kings 4:7</a></span><br />Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/4-27.htm">1 Kings 4:27-28</a></span><br />Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking. / Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/5-15.htm">1 Kings 5:15-18</a></span><br />Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, / not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers. / And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/9-15.htm">1 Kings 9:15</a></span><br />This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/9-21.htm">1 Kings 9:21</a></span><br />their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/1-11.htm">Exodus 1:11</a></span><br />So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/12-37.htm">Exodus 12:37-38</a></span><br />The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children. / And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/38-25.htm">Exodus 38:25-26</a></span><br />The silver from those numbered among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel— / a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/7-66.htm">Nehemiah 7:66-67</a></span><br />The whole assembly numbered 42,360, / in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 245 male and female singers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/11-1.htm">Nehemiah 11:1-2</a></span><br />Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, while the remaining nine were to dwell in their own towns. / And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/20-1.htm">Matthew 20:1-16</a></span><br />“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. / He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. / About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/25-14.htm">Matthew 25:14-30</a></span><br />For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions. / To one he gave five talents, to another two talents, and to another one talent—each according to his own ability. And he went on his journey. / The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put them to work and gained five more. ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.</p><p class="hdg">numbered</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/2-2.htm">2 Chronicles 2:2</a></b></br> And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/8-7.htm">2 Chronicles 8:7,8</a></b></br> <i>As for</i> all the people <i>that were</i> left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which <i>were</i> not of Israel, … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/5-13.htm">1 Kings 5:13-16</a></b></br> And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_chronicles/22-2.htm">1 Chronicles 22:2</a></b></br> And David commanded to gather together the strangers that <i>were</i> in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_chronicles/27-24.htm">Account</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/29-15.htm">Aliens</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/23-24.htm">Census</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-14.htm">David</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/1-17.htm">Fifty</a> <a href="/numbers/26-47.htm">Fifty-Three</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/17-7.htm">Following</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/29-15.htm">Foreigners</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/29-8.htm">Found</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-2.htm">Hundred</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-12.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/29-30.htm">Lands</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-2.htm">Numbered</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/27-24.htm">Numbering</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-2.htm">Six</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-11.htm">Solomon</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/29-15.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/29-15.htm">Strangers</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-10.htm">Thousand</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-2.htm">Three</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/29-4.htm">Wherewith</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_chronicles/9-5.htm">Account</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/30-25.htm">Aliens</a> <a href="/luke/2-1.htm">Census</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">David</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/3-9.htm">Fifty</a> <a href="/john/21-11.htm">Fifty-Three</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/25-27.htm">Following</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/30-25.htm">Foreigners</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/4-18.htm">Found</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-18.htm">Hundred</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/5-2.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/9-28.htm">Lands</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/5-6.htm">Numbered</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/17-14.htm">Numbering</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-18.htm">Six</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/3-1.htm">Solomon</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/6-32.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/15-9.htm">Strangers</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-18.htm">Thousand</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-18.htm">Three</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/16-6.htm">Wherewith</a><div class="vheading2">2 Chronicles 2</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-1.htm">Solomon's laborers for the building of the temple</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-3.htm">His ambassage to Huram for workmen and provisions</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-11.htm">Huram sends him a kind answer</a></span><br>17</div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The Hebrew root for "numbered" is "סָפַר" (safar), which means to count or recount. This action by Solomon reflects his administrative wisdom and organizational skills, traits that were essential for the monumental task of constructing the temple. It also shows continuity in leadership, as Solomon follows in the footsteps of his father, David.<p><b>all the foreign men</b><br />The term "foreign men" refers to non-Israelites residing in the land. These individuals were often laborers or craftsmen, skilled in various trades necessary for large construction projects. Historically, Israel was a melting pot of cultures and peoples, especially during Solomon's reign, which was marked by peace and prosperity. This inclusion of foreigners highlights the universal scope of God's plan, as even those outside the covenant community were used in the service of building the temple.<p><b>in the land of Israel</b><br />This phrase emphasizes the geographical and covenantal boundaries within which Solomon's kingdom operated. The land of Israel was not just a physical territory but a spiritual inheritance promised to the descendants of Abraham. The presence of foreign workers within this land underscores the fulfillment of God's promise to make Israel a blessing to all nations.<p><b>following the census his father David had conducted</b><br />This reference to David's earlier census connects Solomon's actions to his father's legacy. David's census, recorded in <a href="/1_chronicles/21.htm">1 Chronicles 21</a>, was controversial and led to divine judgment due to its motivations. However, Solomon's census is portrayed positively, suggesting a legitimate and necessary preparation for temple construction. It reflects a lesson learned from the past, where the focus is on service to God rather than military might or personal pride.<p><b>and there were found to be 153,600 in all</b><br />The specific number of 153,600 indicates a large workforce, showcasing the scale and ambition of Solomon's temple project. This figure includes 70,000 burden-bearers, 80,000 stonecutters, and 3,600 overseers, as detailed in the surrounding verses. The precision of this number reflects the meticulous planning and organization required for such a grand endeavor. It also symbolizes the unity and cooperation of diverse peoples in achieving a common goal, foreshadowing the inclusive nature of God's kingdom.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_chronicles/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(17, 18) Solomon's levy of Canaanite labourers. (A return to the subject of <a href="/2_chronicles/2-2.htm" title="And Solomon told out three score and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.">2Chronicles 2:2</a>.)<p>(17) <span class= "bld">All the strangers.</span>--The indigenous Canaanite population. (Comp. the use of the term in <a href="/genesis/23-4.htm" title="I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burial plot with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.">Genesis 23:4</a>; <a href="/exodus/22-21.htm" title="You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.">Exodus 22:21</a>; <a href="/leviticus/17-8.htm" title="And you shall say to them, Whatever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,">Leviticus 17:8</a>.)<p><span class= "bld">After the numbering.</span>--The word <span class= "ital">s?phar,</span> "reckoning," "census," occurs here only in the Old Testament.<p><span class= "bld">Wherewith David his father.</span>--The former census of the native Canaanites, which had taken place by order of David, is briefly recorded in <a href="/1_chronicles/22-2.htm" title="And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew worked stones to build the house of God.">1Chronicles 22:2</a>. (Comp. <a href="/2_samuel/20-24.htm" title="And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:">2Samuel 20:24</a>, "and Adoram was over the levy," from which it appears that the subject population was liable to forced labour under David; comp. also <a href="/1_kings/4-6.htm" title="And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.">1Kings 4:6</a>; <a href="/1_kings/5-14.htm" title="And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.">1Kings 5:14</a>; <a href="/context/1_kings/12-4.htm" title="Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.">1Kings 12:4-18</a>.) . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_chronicles/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 17.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Strangers</span>. By these are meant those of the former inhabitants and possessors of the land, who had not been extirpated or driven out. Special regulations respecting them are recorded in <a href="/judges/1-21.htm">Judges 1:21-28, 33-36</a>. But these had largely lapsed till, as it appears, David revived them rather trenchantly, and David is now followed by Solomon (<a href="/2_chronicles/8-7.htm">2 Chronicles 8:7, 8</a>; <a href="/1_kings/9-20.htm">1 Kings 9:20, 21</a>). The very much milder enforcement of labour upon the Israelites themselves is evident from <a href="/1_kings/5-13.htm">1 Kings 5:13-16</a>. <span class="cmt_word">After the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them</span>. Of this transaction on the part of David we do not possess any absolutely distinct statement. But the place of it is sufficiently evident, as indicated in <a href="/1_chronicles/22-2.htm">1 Chronicles 22:2</a>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Solomon</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה</span> <span class="translit">(šə·lō·mōh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8010.htm">Strong's 8010: </a> </span><span class="str2">Solomon -- David's son and successor to his throne</span><br /><br /><span class="word">numbered</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּסְפֹּ֣ר</span> <span class="translit">(way·yis·pōr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5608.htm">Strong's 5608: </a> </span><span class="str2">To count, recount, relate</span><br /><br /><span class="word">all</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל־</span> <span class="translit">(kāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the foreign</span><br /><span class="heb">הַגֵּירִים֙</span> <span class="translit">(hag·gê·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1616.htm">Strong's 1616: </a> </span><span class="str2">A guest, a foreigner</span><br /><br /><span class="word">men</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאֲנָשִׁ֤ים</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ă·nā·šîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> </span><span class="str2">A man as an individual, a male person</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in the land</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּאֶ֣רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(bə·’e·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Israel,</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">following</span><br /><span class="heb">אַחֲרֵ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(’a·ḥă·rê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_310.htm">Strong's 310: </a> </span><span class="str2">The hind or following part</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the census</span><br /><span class="heb">הַסְּפָ֔ר</span> <span class="translit">(has·sə·p̄ār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5610.htm">Strong's 5610: </a> </span><span class="str2">Enumeration, census</span><br /><br /><span class="word">his father</span><br /><span class="heb">אָבִ֑יו</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·ḇîw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1.htm">Strong's 1: </a> </span><span class="str2">Father</span><br /><br /><span class="word">David [had conducted],</span><br /><span class="heb">דָּוִ֣יד</span> <span class="translit">(dā·wîḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1732.htm">Strong's 1732: </a> </span><span class="str2">David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and there were found to be</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּמָּצְא֗וּ</span> <span class="translit">(way·yim·mā·ṣə·’ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4672.htm">Strong's 4672: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present</span><br /><br /><span class="word">153,600 [in all].</span><br /><span class="heb">מֵאָ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(mê·’āh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3967.htm">Strong's 3967: </a> </span><span class="str2">A hundred</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">2 Chronicles 2:17 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">2 Chronicles 2:17 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">2 Chronicles 2:17 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">2 Chronicles 2:17 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">2 Chronicles 2:17 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">2 Chronicles 2:17 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">2 Chronicles 2:17 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">2 Chronicles 2:17 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">2 Chronicles 2:17 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">2 Chronicles 2:17 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/2_chronicles/2-17.htm">OT History: 2 Chronicles 2:17 Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Chronicles 2:16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 2:16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_chronicles/2-18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Chronicles 2:18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 2:18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>