1 Chronicles 29:24

29:24 All the officers and warriors, as well as all of King David’s sons, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.

1 Chronicles 29:2

29:2 So I have made every effort to provide what is needed for the temple of my God, including the gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, as well as a large amount of onyx, settings of antimony and other stones, all kinds of precious stones, and alabaster.

1 Chronicles 1:8

Ham’s Descendants

1:8 The sons of Ham:

Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Lamentations 5:6

5:6 We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria

in order to buy food to eat.


tn Heb “placed a hand under Solomon the king.”

tn Heb “and according to all my strength.”

tn Heb “the gold for the gold, and the silver for the silver, and the bronze for the bronze, and the iron for the iron, and the wood for the wood.”

tn That is, “Egypt.”

tn Heb “we have given the hand”; cf. NRSV “We have made a pact.” This is a Semitic idiom meaning “to make a treaty with” someone, placing oneself in a subservient position as vassal. The prophets criticized these treaties.

tn Heb “bread.” The term “bread” is a synecdoche of specific (= bread) for the general (= food).