2 Chronicles 2:18 Meaning and Explanation
“And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.”
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Read Full Chapter →Solomon assigns these workers: seventy thousand carriers, eighty thousand stonecutters, and three thousand six hundred overseers to direct the labor.
What Does 2 Chronicles 2:18 Mean?
The chapter closes by assigning the workforce to its tasks. Seventy thousand become bearers, eighty thousand cut stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred serve as overseers to keep the people at their work. The plan announced earlier is now fully set in motion.
Every great work for God needs both willing hands and faithful order. The carriers, the cutters, and the overseers each had a place, and none was unimportant to the whole. So in the household of God, every gift and every task, however hidden, is joined to the rest. The temple rose because countless ordinary efforts were knit together toward one holy end.
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What does 2 Chronicles 2:18 mean?
Solomon assigns these workers: seventy thousand carriers, eighty thousand stonecutters, and three thousand six hundred overseers to direct the labor.