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2 Chronicles 8:1

in 2 Chronicles 8

Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of Jehovah, and his own house,

KJV

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the Lord, and his own house,

This verse in 2 Chronicles 8

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

At the end of twenty years - He employed seven years and a half in building the temple, and twelve and a half, or thirteen, in building his own house. - Compare this with 1Ki 7:1.

This site's exposition

at the end of the twenty years

on 2 Chronicles 8:1-6

The twenty years join the temple's seven and the palace's thirteen into one span. Chronicles lists what filled it: cities rebuilt from Hiram, the capture of Hamath-zobah, and store and chariot cities across the land. Hamath-zobah is the one military campaign recorded for Solomon in either book.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years,.... See Gill on 1Ki 9:10.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וַיְהִ֞יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • מִקֵּ֣ץ׀from [the] end of

    miketzH7093 →67 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֣יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242 →315 times

  • שָׁנָ֗הyear[s]

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בָּנָ֧הhe built

    banahH1129 →376 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֛הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בֵּ֥ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • בֵּיתֽוֹ׃own house his

    beitoH1004 →2046 times

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

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.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).