¹⁶and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa¹; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem. ¹ Hebrew _Japho_. =16.= _Joppa_] Hebrew _Japho_, modern _Jaffa_ (_Yāfā_). =17, 18= [16, 17, Hebrew] (compare verse 2 above). BEARERS AND HEWERS. ¹⁷And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. =17.= _David his father_] See 1 Chronicles xxii. 2. ¹⁸And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people awork. =18.= As the separate numbers given in this verse equal the total (150,000) given in verse 17, evidently the Chronicler thought that all the aliens in the land were forced to take part in the work! _three thousand and six hundred overseers_] In 1 Kings v. 16, _three thousand and three hundred_. _Three_ in Hebrew (which may be represented in English by the letters SLS) is easily corrupted into _six_ (= SS in English letters). Compare also viii. 10 (= 1 Kings ix. 23). _awork_] i.e. _on work, to work_. CHAPTER III. =1, 2.= THE TEMPLE BEGUN. Verse 1 has no parallel in Kings; for verse 2 compare 1 Kings vi. 1. ¹Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where _the LORD_ appeared unto David his father, which he made ready¹ in the place that David² had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan³ the Jebusite. ¹ The Septuagint and Vulgate have, _in the place which David had prepared, in the threshing-floor &c._ ² Hebrew _in the place of David_. ³ In 2 Samuel xxiv. 16, &c., _Araunah_. =1.= _in mount Moriah_] Genesis xxii. 2. _which he made ready in the place that David had appointed_] Read rather, as margin, =in the place which David had prepared= (so LXX.). _Ornan the Jebusite_] See 1 Chronicles xxi. 15 ff. ²And he began to build in the second _day_ of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. =2.= _in the second_ day] The words are absent from 1 Kings and should probably be omitted here. The year according to 1 Kings was the four hundred and eightieth after the Exodus. =3= (= 1 Kings vi. 2). THE MEASUREMENTS OF THE TEMPLE. ³Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for¹ the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. ¹ Or, _these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for &c._