cities, with walls, gates, and bars; 6and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 7As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel; 8of their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants, unto this day. 9But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. 10And these were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people. 11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he
the Chronicler's contemporaries), and according to 1 Kin. ix. 16 Gezer was presented to Solomon by the Pharaoh as the dowry of his daughter.
6. Baalath] A city in the tribe of (the southern) Dan not far from Gezer and Beth-horon (1 Kin. ix. 18).
cities for his chariots] See note on i. 14.
7—10 (= 1 Kin. ix. 20—23). Solomon's Task-workers.
7. Hittites . . . Jebusites] See notes on 1 Chr. i. 13—15.
8. consumed not] But in Kings, were not able to consume, a displeasing remark, which the Chronicler therefore softened down.
a levy of bondservants] Cp. the notes on ii. 2, 17.
9. and chief of his captains] Read (with 1 Kin. ix. 22) and his princes and his captains. The statements of this verse must be read in connection with 1 Kin. v. 13 ff., xii. 4. ff., whence it appears that, though Solomon did not actually reduce any Israelite to permanent slavery, yet he imposed upon his own people a corvée which was felt to be very burdensome.
10. And these were the chief] After this preface (cp. 1 Kin. ix. 23) we expect both here and in 1 Kin. a list of these persons; cp. 1 Chr. xi. 10 ff., xii. 1 ff. Possibly the text of 1 Kin. suffered at an early date, and the list was missing when the Chronicler wrote.
two hundred and fifty] According to 1 Kin. ix. 23, five hundred and fifty. On the other hand the under-overseers are reckoned at three thousand six hundred in 2 Chr. ii. 18 as against three thousand three hundred in 1 Kin. v. 16. The total number therefore of overseers of all kinds is given both in 1 Kin. and 2 Chr. as 3850.
