2 Chronicles 8 Footnotes

8:2 First Kg 9:12 said Hiram was not pleased with the twenty Galilean cities that Solomon had given him. Apparently Hiram returned the cities to Solomon and this is what Solomon did with them.

8:3 This is the only record of a military action by Solomon. This event is omitted by 1Kg 9:17-19, the parallel passage (1Ch 22:9).

8:11 The Chronicler assumed his readers knew all about Solomon’s marriage to Pharaoh’s daughter as a part of his international diplomacy.

8:18 Because the round trip journeys to Ophir took three years (9:21; 1Kg 10:22), the city (or country) has been located in India, in Somaliland (on the African coast), or in western or southern Arabia. However, in the absence of other evidence, the location remains a mystery.