On the numbers, see the 1 Kings 5:16 note.

To set the people a work—or, “to set the people to work”—that is, to compel the…

Solomon’s levy of Canaanite labourers. (A return to the subject of 2 Chronicles 2:2.)

And he set seventy thousand of them
Which is repeated from (2 Chronicles 2:2) , to show how the above nu…

Solomon informs Huram of the particular services to be performed in the temple. The mysteries of the true religion, unlike those of the Gentile sup…