2 Chronicles 9:21-31

21 ¹For the king had ships which went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

22 ²So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

23 And all the kings of the earth were seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.

24 ³They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses and mules, so much year by year.

25 Now Solomon had 4,000 * stalls for horses and chariots and 12,000 * * horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

26 ⁴He was the ruler over all the kings from the Euphrates River even to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt.

27 ⁵The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

28 ⁶And they were bringing horses for Solomon from Egypt and from all countries.

29 ⁷Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, ⁸are they not written in the records of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

30 ⁹Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel.

Death of Solomon

31 And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in ¹⁰the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

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2 Chronicles 9:21-31 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 9 & 10

The ninth chapter is the same with 1Ki 10:1-29 excepting 2Ch 9:26, which agrees with 1Ki 4:21,29-31, the same with 1Ki 11:41-43, only in 2Ch 9:29 it is more largely expressed that the acts of Solomon's reign were written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer, against Jeroboam the son of Nebat; or rather "concerning Jeroboam", as the Septuagint and some other versions {b}, in which Iddo is called Joel; and by Theodoret said to be the same that prophesied of Jeroboam and his altar, \\see Gill on "1Ki 13:1"\\; the books mentioned are since lost.

{b} le peri Sept. de, Junius & Tremellias, Piscator. 19324-950110-2138-2Ch9.2

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. 2 Chronicles 20:36, 37
2. 1 Kings 3:13; 2 Chronicles 1:12
3. Psalms 72:10
4. Deuteronomy 17:16; 1 Kings 4:26; 1 Kings 10:26; 2 Chronicles 1:14
5. Genesis 15:18; 1 Kings 4:21, 24
6. 2 Chronicles 1:15-17
7. 2 Chronicles 1:16
8. 1 Kings 11:41-43
9. 1 Chronicles 29:29
10. 1 Kings 11:42, 43
11. 1 Kings 2:10

Footnotes 3

[a]. Heb "shephelah"
[b]. Lit "words"
[c]. Heb "Jedo"