2 Chronicles 9:22-31

9:22 King Solomon was wealthier and wiser than any of the kings of the earth. ¹  9:23 All the kings of the earth wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom. ²  9:24 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. ³ 

9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses ⁴  and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. ⁵  9:26 He ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River ⁶  to the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt. 9:27 The king made silver as plentiful ⁷  in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was ⁸  as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands ⁹ . 9:28 Solomon acquired horses from Egypt and from all the lands.

Solomon’s Reign Ends

9:29 The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded ¹⁰  in the Annals of Nathan the Prophet, the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and the Vision of Iddo the Seer pertaining to Jeroboam son of Nebat. 9:30 Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem ¹¹  for forty years. 9:31 Then Solomon passed away ¹²  and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.

[9:22]  ¹ tn Heb “King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth with respect to wealth and wisdom.”

[9:23]  ² 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]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”

[9:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”

[9:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew the Euphrates River was typically referred to simply as “the River.”

[9:27]  ⁷ tn The words “as plentiful” are supplied for clarification.

[9:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “he made cedar.”

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

[9:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Solomon, the former and the latter, are they not written?”

[9:30]  ¹¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:31]  ¹² tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”