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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 9:13 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
2Ch 9:13 |
Strong Concordance |
Now the weight [04948] of gold [02091] that came [0935] to Solomon [08010] in one [0259] year [08141] was six [08337] hundred [03967] and threescore [08346] and six [08337] talents [03603] of gold [02091]; |
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King James |
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
HIS RICHES. (2Ch. 9:13-28)
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year--(See on 1Ki. 10:14-29).
six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold--The sum named is equal to £3,646,350; and if we take the proportion of silver (Ch2 9:14), which is not taken into consideration, at one to nine, there would be about £200,000, making a yearly supply of nearly £6,000,000, being a vast amount for an infant effort in maritime commerce [NAPIER]. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Solomon's revenue in gold, and the use he made of it. Cf. Kg1 10:14-22, and the commentary there on this section, which is identical in both narratives, with the exception of some trifling differences. Before מביאים והסּחרים the relative pronoun is to be supplied: "and what the merchants brought." As to the derivation of the word פּחות, which comes from the Aramaic form פּחה, governor (Ch2 9:14), see on Hag 1:1. - תּרשׁישׁ הלכות אניּות, in Ch2 9:21, ships going to Tarshish, is an erroneous paraphrase of תּרשׁישׁ אניּות, Tarshish-ships, i.e., ships built for long sea voyages; for the fleet did not go to Tartessus in Spain, but to Ophir in Southern Arabia (see on Kg1 9:26.). All the rest has been explained in the commentary on 1 Kings 10. |
14 Beside that which chapmen [0582] [08446] and merchants [05503] brought [0935]. And all the kings [04428] of Arabia [06152] and governors [06346] of the country [0776] brought [0935] gold [02091] and silver [03701] to Solomon [08010].
26 And king [04428] Solomon [08010] made [06213] a navy of ships [0590] in Eziongeber [06100], which is beside Eloth [0359], on the shore [08193] of the Red [05488] sea [03220], in the land [0776] of Edom [0123].
21 For the king's [04428] ships [0591] went [01980] to Tarshish [08659] with the servants [05650] of Huram [02361]: every three [07969] years [08141] once [0259] came [0935] the ships [0591] of Tarshish [08659] bringing [05375] gold [02091], and silver [03701], ivory [08143], and apes [06971], and peacocks [08500].
1 In the second [08147] year [08141] of Darius [01867] the king [04428], in the sixth [08345] month [02320], in the first [0259] day [03117] of the month [02320], came the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] by [03027] Haggai [02292] the prophet [05030] unto Zerubbabel [02216] the son [01121] of Shealtiel [07597], governor [06346] of Judah [03063], and to Joshua [03091] the son [01121] of Josedech [03087], the high [01419] priest [03548], saying [0559],
14 Beside that which chapmen [0582] [08446] and merchants [05503] brought [0935]. And all the kings [04428] of Arabia [06152] and governors [06346] of the country [0776] brought [0935] gold [02091] and silver [03701] to Solomon [08010].
14 Now the weight [04948] of gold [02091] that came [0935] to Solomon [08010] in one [0259] year [08141] was six [08337] hundred [03967] threescore [08346] and six [08337] talents [03603] of gold [02091],
15 Beside that he had of the merchantmen [0582] [08446], and of the traffick [04536] of the spice merchants [07402], and of all the kings [04428] of Arabia [06153], and of the governors [06346] of the country [0776].
16 And king [04428] Solomon [08010] made [06213] two hundred [03967] targets [06793] of beaten [07820] gold [02091]: six [08337] hundred [03967] shekels of gold [02091] went [05927] to one [0259] target [06793].
17 And he made three [07969] hundred [03967] shields [04043] of beaten [07820] gold [02091]; three [07969] pound [04488] of gold [02091] went [05927] to one [0259] shield [04043]: and the king [04428] put [05414] them in the house [01004] of the forest [03293] of Lebanon [03844].
18 Moreover the king [04428] made [06213] a great [01419] throne [03678] of ivory [08127], and overlaid [06823] it with the best [06338] gold [02091].
19 The throne [03678] had six [08337] steps [04609], and the top [07218] of the throne [03678] was round [05696] behind [0310]: and there were stays [03027] on either side on the place [04725] of the seat [07675], and two [08147] lions [0738] stood [05975] beside [0681] the stays [03027].
20 And twelve [08147] [06240] lions [0738] stood [05975] there on the one side and on the other upon the six [08337] steps [04609]: there was not the like [03651] made [06213] in any kingdom [04467].
21 And all king [04428] Solomon's [08010] drinking [04945] vessels [03627] were of gold [02091], and all the vessels [03627] of the house [01004] of the forest [03293] of Lebanon [03844] were of pure [05462] gold [02091]; none were of silver [03701]: it was nothing [03972] accounted [02803] of in the days [03117] of Solomon [08010].
22 For the king [04428] had at sea [03220] a navy [0590] of Tharshish [08659] with the navy [0590] of Hiram [02438]: once [0259] in three [07969] years [08141] came [0935] the navy [0590] of Tharshish [08659], bringing [05375] gold [02091], and silver [03701], ivory [08143], and apes [06971], and peacocks [08500].