2 Chronicles 2:17 Cross References - NSB

¹⁷ Solomon counted all the men who were foreigners in the land of Israel, as his father David had counted them. Solomon counted one hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred foreigners.

¹³ King Solomon drafted thirty thousand men as forced labor from all over Israel. ¹⁴ He appointed Adoniram to be in charge of them. He divided them into three groups of ten thousand men. Each group spent one month in Lebanon and two months back home. ¹⁵ Solomon also had eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains. There were seventy thousand men to carry the stones. ¹⁶ He placed three thousand three hundred foremen there to supervise their work.

²⁰ Solomon used the descendants of the people of Canaan whom the Israelites had not killed when they took possession of their land as his forced labor. These included Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ²¹ Their descendants continue to be slaves down to the present time.

² So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners living in Israel. He appointed stonecutters from among them to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God.

² He drafted seventy thousand men to carry heavy loads, eighty thousand to quarry stones in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred foremen.

⁷ The Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites had been left in the land because the Israelites had not been able to destroy them. They were not Israelites. ⁸ They had descendants who were still in the land. Solomon drafted them for slave labor. They are still Israel’s slaves today.