2 Chronicles 9:4

9:4 the food in his banquet hall, ¹  his servants and attendants ²  in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, ³  she was amazed. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 9:20

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. ⁵ 

[9:4]  ¹ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

[9:4]  ² tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

[9:4]  ³ tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the Lord.” But עֲלִיָּתוֹ (’aliyyato, “his upper room”) should be emended to עֹלָתוֹ, (’olato, “his burnt sacrifice[s]”). See the parallel account in 1 Kgs 10:5.

[9:4]  ⁴ tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”

[9:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “there was no silver, it was not regarded as anything in the days of Solomon.”