Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
On the numbers, see the I 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.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Chronicles 2:18:
1 Kings 5:16
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