2 Chronicles 2:2

told out The 150,000 bearers and hewers mentioned here are said to have been aliens(2 Chronicles 2:17). This statement is confirmed by 1 Kings 5:15 which distinguishes them from the levy of 30,000 hewers raised out of all Israel (ib. 1 Kings 5:13). The 30,000 Israelites were subject to a corvée of one month in every three, the 150,000 aliens were apparently always at work. Cp. 2 Chronicles 8:9, note.

in the mountain R.V. in the mountains. The Hebrew expression is indefinite.