2 Chronicles 6:16

6:16 Now, O Lord God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, ¹  provided that your descendants watch their step and obey my law as you have done.’ ² 

2 Chronicles 7:18

7:18 Then I will establish your dynasty, ³  just as I promised your father David, ‘You will not fail to have a successor ruling over Israel.’ ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 21:7

21:7 But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty ⁵  because of the promise ⁶  he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 21:2

Jehoram’s Reign

21:2 His brothers, Jehoshaphat’s sons, were Azariah, Jechiel, Zechariah, Azariahu, Michael, and Shephatiah. All of these were sons of King Jehoshaphat of Israel. ⁸ 

2 Chronicles 7:12

7:12 the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered ⁹  your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made. ¹⁰ 

2 Chronicles 7:16

7:16 Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; ¹¹  I will be constantly present there. ¹² 

2 Chronicles 7:1

Solomon Dedicates the Temple

7:1 When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven ¹³  and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the Lord’s splendor filled the temple.

2 Chronicles 2:4

2:4 Look, I am ready to build a temple to honor ¹⁴  the Lord my God and to dedicate it to him in order to burn fragrant incense before him, to set out the bread that is regularly displayed, ¹⁵  and to offer burnt sacrifices each morning and evening, and on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other times appointed by the Lord our God. This is something Israel must do on a permanent basis. ¹⁶ 

2 Chronicles 9:5

9:5 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight ¹⁷  was true!

2 Chronicles 9:1

Solomon Entertains a Queen

9:1 When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, ¹⁸  she came to challenge ¹⁹  him ²⁰  with difficult questions. ²¹  She arrived in Jerusalem ²²  with a great display of pomp, ²³  bringing with her camels carrying spices, ²⁴  a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind.

2 Chronicles 9:9-27

9:9 She gave the king 120 talents ²⁵  of gold and a very large quantity of spices and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. ²⁶  9:10 (Huram’s ²⁷  servants, aided by Solomon’s servants, brought gold from Ophir, as well as ²⁸  fine ²⁹  timber and precious gems. 9:11 With the timber the king made steps ³⁰  for the Lord’s temple and royal palace as well as stringed instruments ³¹  for the musicians. No one had seen anything like them in the land of Judah prior to that. ³² ) 9:12 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she requested, more than what she had brought him. ³³  Then she left and returned ³⁴  to her homeland with her attendants.

Solomon’s Wealth

9:13 Solomon received 666 talents ³⁵  of gold per year, ³⁶  9:14 besides what he collected from the merchants ³⁷  and traders. All the Arabian kings and the governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon. 9:15 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures ³⁸  of hammered gold were used for each shield. 9:16 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; 300 measures ³⁹  of gold were used for each of those shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest. ⁴⁰ 

9:17 The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold. 9:18 There were six steps leading up to the throne, and a gold footstool was attached to the throne. ⁴¹  The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side. ⁴²  9:19 There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom. ⁴³ 

9:20 All of King Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon’s time. ⁴⁴  9:21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships ⁴⁵  manned by Huram’s men ⁴⁶  that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet ⁴⁷  came into port with cargoes of ⁴⁸  gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ⁴⁹ 

9:22 King Solomon was wealthier and wiser than any of the kings of the earth. ⁵⁰  9:23 All the kings of the earth wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom. ⁵¹  9:24 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. ⁵² 

9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses ⁵³  and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. ⁵⁴  9:26 He ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River ⁵⁵  to the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt. 9:27 The king made silver as plentiful ⁵⁶  in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was ⁵⁷  as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands ⁵⁸ .

Psalms 89:29

89:29 I will give him an eternal dynasty, ⁵⁹ 

and make his throne as enduring as the skies above. ⁶⁰ 

Psalms 89:36

89:36 His dynasty will last forever. ⁶¹ 

His throne will endure before me, like the sun, ⁶² 

[6:16]  ¹ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man from before me sitting on the throne of Israel.”

[6:16]  ² tn Heb “guard their way by walking in my law as you have walked before me.”

[7:18]  ³ tn Heb “I will establish the throne of your kingdom.”

[7:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “there will not be cut off from you a man ruling over Israel.”

[21:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “house.”

[21:7]  ⁶ tn Or “covenant.”

[21:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “which he made to David, just as he had promised to give him and his sons a lamp all the days.” Here “lamp” is metaphorical, symbolizing the Davidic dynasty.

[21:2]  ⁸ sn A number of times in 2 Chronicles “Israel” is used instead of the more specific “Judah”; see 2 Chr 12:6; 23:2). In the interest of consistency some translations (e.g., NAB, NRSV) substitute “Judah” for “Israel” here.

[7:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “I have heard.”

[7:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “temple of sacrifice.” This means the Lord designated the temple as the place for making sacrifices, and this has been clarified in the translation.

[7:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “for my name to be there perpetually [or perhaps, “forever”].”

[7:16]  ¹² tn Heb “and my eyes and my heart will be there all the days.”

[7:1]  ¹³ tn Or “the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[2:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “for the name of.”

[2:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and the regular display.”

[2:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “permanently [is] this upon Israel.”

[9:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”

[9:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the report about Solomon.”

[9:1]  ¹⁹ tn Or “test.”

[9:1]  ²⁰ 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.

[9:1]  ²¹ tn Or “riddles.”

[9:1]  ²² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:1]  ²³ 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.

[9:1]  ²⁴ tn Or “balsam oil.”

[9:9]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold was 8,076 lbs. (3,672 kg).

[9:9]  ²⁶ tn Heb “there has not been like those spices which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”

[9:10]  ²⁷ tn Heb “Huram’s” (also in v. 21). Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.

[9:10]  ²⁸ tn Heb “who brought gold from Ophir, brought.”

[9:10]  ²⁹ tn Heb “algum.”

[9:11]  ³⁰ tn Heb “tracks.” The parallel text in 1 Kgs 10:12 has a different term whose meaning is uncertain: “supports,” perhaps “banisters” or “parapets.”

[9:11]  ³¹ tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

[9:11]  ³² tn Heb “there was not seen like these formerly in the land of Judah.”

[9:12]  ³³ tn Heb “besides what she brought to the king.”

[9:12]  ³⁴ tn Heb “turned and went.”

[9:13]  ³⁵ tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold Solomon received annually was 44,822 lbs. (20,380 kg).

[9:13]  ³⁶ tn Heb “the weight of the gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 units of gold.”

[9:14]  ³⁷ tn Heb “traveling men.”

[9:15]  ³⁸ tn The Hebrew text has simply “600,” with no unit of measure given.

[9:16]  ³⁹ tn The Hebrew text has simply “300,” with no unit of measure given.

[9:16]  ⁴⁰ sn This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest. See 1 Kgs 7:2.

[9:18]  ⁴¹ tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:19 has instead “and the back of it was rounded on top.”

[9:18]  ⁴² tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”

[9:19]  ⁴³ tn Heb “nothing like it had been made for any kingdom.”

[9:20]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “there was no silver, it was not regarded as anything in the days of Solomon.”

[9:21]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “for ships belonging to the king were going [to] Tarshish with the servants of Huram.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.

[9:21]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “servants.”

[9:21]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”

[9:21]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish came carrying.”

[9:21]  ⁴⁹ tn The meaning of this word is unclear; some suggest it refers to “baboons.” NEB has “monkeys,” NASB, NRSV “peacocks,” and NIV “baboons.”

[9:22]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth with respect to wealth and wisdom.”

[9:23]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “and all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”

[9:24]  ⁵² tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”

[9:25]  ⁵³ tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”

[9:25]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”

[9:26]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew the Euphrates River was typically referred to simply as “the River.”

[9:27]  ⁵⁶ tn The words “as plentiful” are supplied for clarification.

[9:27]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “he made cedar.”

[9:27]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah.”

[89:29]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “and I will set in place forever his offspring.”

[89:29]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “and his throne like the days of the heavens.”

[89:36]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “his offspring forever will be.”

[89:36]  ⁶² tn Heb “and his throne like the sun before me.”