2 Chronicles 8:10

They were also King Solomon’s chief officials. There were 250 of them, and they supervised the workers.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And these were the chief of king Solomon’s officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

In Context

9But Solomon did not force Israelis to work for him. Israelis became his soldiers and commanders of his chariots and his chariot-drivers.

11Solomon moved his wife, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt, from the place outside Jerusalem called ‘The City of David’ to the place that his workers had built for her. He said, “I do not want my wife to live in the palace that my father King David’s workers built, because the Sacred Chest was in that palace for a while, and any place where the Sacred Chest has been is holy.”

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Cross References

1 Kings 9:23There were 550 officials who supervised the slaves who worked to build all those places.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 8:2-12

Solomon's Buildings. ( b. c. 992.) 1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the Lord , and his own house, 2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. 3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it. 4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath. 5 Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with… Read the whole commentary →

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