John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 2. And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men , etc.] Of whom, and the difference of the last number in this text from ( 1 Kings 5:15,16), see the notes there.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- The building of the temple.
--There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in 1Ki 6. It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Ful instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enoug to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Le us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way ma be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God throug the Spirit _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew ויספר5608 שׁלמה8010 שׁבעים7657 אלף505 אישׁ376 סבל5449 ושׁמונים8084 אלף505 אישׁ376 חצב2672 בהר2022 ומנצחים5329 עליהם5921 שׁלשׁת7969 אלפים505 ושׁשׁ8337 מאות׃3967
