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2 Chronicles 1:17

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A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they fetched up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

KJV

And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 1

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

A horse for a hundred and fifty - Suppose we take the shekel at the utmost value at which it has been rated, three shillings; then the price of a horse was about twenty-two pounds ten shillings. On Solomon’s multiplying horses, Bishop Warburton has made some judicious remarks: - “Moses had expressly prohibited the multiplying of horses, Deu 17:16, by which the future king was forbidden to establish a body of cavalry, because this could not be effected without sending into Egypt, with which people God had forbidden any communication, as this would be dangerous to religion.

This site's exposition

imported from Egypt and Kue

on 2 Chronicles 1:16-17

Solomon's horses and chariots come from Egypt and Kue, bought and resold through the crown's own merchants. Deuteronomy 17:16 had forbidden Israel's king to acquire many horses or to send the people back to Egypt for them. Chronicles sets that law beside Solomon's trade with no comment, as Kings does.

This site's exposition

six hundred shekels of silver

A horse from Egypt cost a hundred and fifty shekels of silver, which Clarke puts at about twenty-two pounds ten shillings. Clarke cites Warburton on Deuteronomy 17:16. Warburton reads that law as a ban on a cavalry for the king, whose horses could be imported only from Egypt.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

God's Goodness to Solomon. 1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the L ORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

To reign, &c. - Give me the spirit of my father David, that Israel may not suffer by the change. The eminency of those that went before us, and the obligation that lies upon us, to keep and carry on the good work they were engaged in, should quicken our prayers for wisdom and grace, that we may do the work of God in our day, as faithful as they did in theirs.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • וַֽ֠יַּעֲלוּand they brought up

    vaiyaaluH5927 →890 times

  • וַיּוֹצִ֨יאוּand they brought out

    vaiyotziuH3318 →1067 times

  • מִמִּצְרַ֤יִםfrom Egypt

    mimitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • מֶרְכָּבָה֙a chariot

    merkavahH4818 →44 times

  • בְּשֵׁ֣שׁfor six

    besheshH8337 →216 times

  • מֵא֣וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • כֶּ֔סֶףsilver

    kesefH3701 →403 times

  • וְס֖וּסand a horse

    vesusH5483 →140 times

  • בַּחֲמִשִּׁ֣יםfor fifty

    bachamishimH2572 →163 times

  • וּמֵאָ֑הand one hundred

    umeahH3967 →581 times

  • וְ֠כֵןand thus

    vekhenH3651 →771 times

  • לְכָל־to all

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • מַלְכֵ֧י[the] kings of

    malkheiH4428 →2525 times

  • הַֽחִתִּ֛יםthe Hittites

    hachitimH2850 →

  • וּמַלְכֵ֥יand [the] kings of

    umalkheiH4428 →2525 times

  • אֲרָ֖םAram

    ʾaramH758 →143 times

  • בְּיָדָ֥םby hand their

    beyadamH3027 →1618 times

  • יוֹצִֽיאוּ׃they brought [them] out

    yotziuH3318 →1067 times

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

Related verses

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The walk

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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 Kings 10:29

    but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 12:28–30

      After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out…

    • 1 Kings 13:33–34

      Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a…

    • 1 Kings 14:16

      So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”

    • 2 Kings 15:28

      And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

    • 2 Kings 17:22

      The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam had committed and did not turn away from them.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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