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2 Chronicles 9:27
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrative describes King Solomon’s reign immediately after detailing his political dominion from the Euphrates to Egypt’s border and immediately before noting his imported horses.
The words — וַ/יִּתֵּ֨ן (va/i.yi.Ten) translates as “and he made,” and הַ/כֶּ֛סֶף (ha./Ke.sef) means “the silver.” The text literally states that the king made silver in Jerusalem as common as stones, and cedars as abundant as sycamores in the foothills.
The thread — 1 Kings 10:27 repeats this exact phrasing, while 2 Chronicles 1:15 expands the record by explicitly adding gold. 1 Chronicles 27:28 later mentions officials overseeing sycamore trees in that same foothills region.
Why it lands — The verse records material abundance without commentary, placing it between accounts of Solomon’s political reach and military imports. It asks the reader to note how economic descriptions function within a broader narrative of royal power and resource management.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 1:15 The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- 1 Kings 10:27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- 1 Chronicles 27:28 Baal-hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the foothills. Joash was in charge of the stores of olive oil.
- 2 Chronicles 9:20 All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
- Job 22:24 and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
- Psalms 78:47 He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
- Isaiah 9:10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
- Amos 7:14 “I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
- Luke 19:4 So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.