2 Chronicles 2:9

2:9 to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.

2 Chronicles 2:1

Solomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple

2:1 (1:18) ¹  Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. ² 

2 Chronicles 9:8

9:8 May the Lord your God be praised because he favored ³  you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! ⁴  Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, ⁵  he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.” ⁶ 

2 Chronicles 9:1

Solomon Entertains a Queen

9:1 When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, ⁷  she came to challenge ⁸  him ⁹  with difficult questions. ¹⁰  She arrived in Jerusalem ¹¹  with a great display of pomp, ¹²  bringing with her camels carrying spices, ¹³  a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind.

2 Chronicles 29:1

Hezekiah Consecrates the Temple

29:1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. ¹⁴  His mother was Abijah, ¹⁵  the daughter of Zechariah.

Ezekiel 7:20

7:20 They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, ¹⁶  and with it they made their abominable images – their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.

¹ sn Beginning with 2:1, the verse numbers through 2:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 2:1 ET = 1:18 HT, 2:2 ET = 2:1 HT, 2:3 ET = 2:2 HT, etc., through 2:18 ET = 2:17 HT. Beginning with 3:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

² tn Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the Lord and house for his kingship.”

³ tn Or “delighted in.”

⁴ tn Heb “as king for the Lord your God.”

⁵ tn Heb “to make him stand permanently.”

⁶ tn Heb “to do justice and righteousness.”

⁷ tn Heb “the report about Solomon.”

⁸ tn Or “test.”

⁹ tn Heb “Solomon.” The recurrence of the proper name here is redundant in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.

¹⁰ tn Or “riddles.”

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¹² tn Heb “with very great strength.” The Hebrew word חַיִל (khayil, “strength”) may refer here to the size of her retinue or to the great wealth she brought with her.

¹³ tn Or “balsam oil.”

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¹⁵ tn The parallel passage in 2 Kgs 18:2 has “Abi.”

¹⁶ tc The MT reads “he set up the beauty of his ornament as pride.” The verb may be repointed as plural without changing the consonantal text. The Syriac reads “their ornaments” (plural), implying עֶדְיָם (’edyam) rather than עֶדְיוֹ (’edyo) and meaning “they were proud of their beautiful ornaments.” This understands “ornaments” in the common sense of women’s jewelry, which then were used to make idols. The singular suffix “his ornaments” would refer to using items from the temple treasury to make idols. D. I. Block points out the foreshadowing of Ezek 16:17 which, with Rashi and the Targum, supports the understanding that this is a reference to temple items. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:265.