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1 Chronicles 18:8

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And from Tibhath and Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a large amount of bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze Sea, the pillars, and various bronze articles.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadarezer, David took very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

KJV

Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

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This verse in 1 Chronicles 18

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

In 2Sa 8:4 David is said to have taken seven hundred horsemen, whereas here it is said that he took seven thousand. This great discrepancy in the text of the two narratives seems to have originated with a transcriber in confounding the two Hebrew letters which indicate the numbers, and in neglecting to mark or obscure the points over one of them.

This site's exposition

took the shields of gold

on 1 Chronicles 18:7-11

Where 2 Samuel simply records that David dedicated the gold and silver, Chronicles adds a detail forward-looking to the temple: the brass taken from Tibhath and Chun, Hadarezer's cities, is named at verse 8 as the very brass wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass. The spoils of Zobah, Hamath, Edom, Moab, Ammon, the Philistines and Amalek all funnel into one dedication at verse 11, so the chapter reads David's wars as a supply line for a temple he will not live to build. Tou of Hamath's embassy through his son Hadoram folds foreign homage into the same offering.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

14 So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people. 15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder. 16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

from Tibhath and from Chun--These places are called Betah and Berothai (2Sa 8:8). Perhaps the one might be the Jewish, the other the Syrian, name of these towns. Neither their situation nor the connection between them is known.

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The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּמִטִּבְחַ֤תand from Tibhath

    umitivchatH2880 →

  • וּמִכּוּן֙and from Kun

    umikunH3560 →

  • עָרֵ֣י[the] cities of

    ʾareiH5892 →1090 times

  • הֲדַדְעֶ֔זֶרHadadezer

    hadadezerH1928 →12 times

  • לָקַ֥חhe took

    lakachH3947 →966 times

  • דָּוִ֛ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • נְחֹ֖שֶׁתbronze

    nechoshetH5178 →140 times

  • רַבָּ֣הmuch

    rabahH7227 →454 times

  • מְאֹ֑דvery

    meodH3966 →300 times

  • בָּ֣הּ׀with it

    bah

  • עָשָׂ֣הhe made

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֗הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יָ֤ם[the] sea of

    yamH3220 →396 times

  • הַנְּחֹ֙שֶׁת֙<the> bronze

    hanechoshetH5178 →140 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הָֽעַמּוּדִ֔יםthe pillars

    haamudimH5982 →

  • וְאֵ֖תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • כְּלֵ֥י[the] articles of

    keleiH3627 →325 times

  • הַנְּחֹֽשֶׁת׃ פ<the> bronze

    hanechoshetH5178 →140 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Samuel 8:8And from Betah and Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a large amount of bronze.5 works2 Chronicles 4:12–18the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars; the two sets of network covering both bowls of the capitals atop the pillars;3 works2 Chronicles 4:2–6He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.2 works1 Kings 7:15–47He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.2 worksJeremiah 52:17–23Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.2 works1 Chronicles 22:14Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD—100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron too great to be weighed. I have also provided timber and stone, and you may add to them.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Kings 7:23He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 8:8

    And from Betah and Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a large amount of bronze.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 29:7

      Toward the service of God’s house they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.

    • 2 Chronicles 4:1–18

      He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

    • 1 Chronicles 22:14

      Now behold, I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the LORD—100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron too great to be weighed. I have also…

    • 1 Chronicles 22:16

      in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and may the LORD be with you.”

    • Ezekiel 47:16

      On the north side it will extend from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon through Lebo-hamath to Zedad, Berothah, and Sibraim (which is on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as…

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Alfred Edersheim, The Temple: Its Ministry and Services; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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