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2 Chronicles 9:20

in 2 Chronicles 9

All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

KJV

And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 9

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

drinking cups were gold

on 2 Chronicles 9:20-21

Gold replaces silver so completely in daily use that silver “was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon”. The ships of Tarshish arrive once every three years “bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks”. The Hebrew words behind apes and peacocks are foreign loanwords.

The words behind it

19 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.

  • וְ֠כֹלand all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • כְּלֵ֞י[the] vessels of

    keleiH3627 →325 times

  • מַשְׁקֵ֨ה[the] drink of

    mashkehH4945 →

  • הַמֶּ֤לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹה֙Solomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • זָהָ֔ב[were] gold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • וְכֹ֗לand all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • כְּלֵ֛י[the] utensils of

    keleiH3627 →325 times

  • בֵּֽית־[the] House of

    beit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יַ֥עַר[the] Forest of

    yaarH3293 →

  • הַלְּבָנ֖וֹן<the> Lebanon

    halevanonH3844 →71 times

  • זָהָ֣ב[were] gold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • סָג֑וּרpure gold

    sagurH5462 →91 times

  • אֵ֣יןnot

    ʾeinH369 →789 times

  • כֶּ֗סֶףsilver

    kesefH3701 →403 times

  • נֶחְשָׁ֛ב[was] esteemed

    nechshavH2803 →124 times

  • בִּימֵ֥יin [the] days of

    bimeiH3117 →2304 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֖הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • לִמְאֽוּמָה׃to anything

    limumahH3972 →

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

The walk

8 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

    Isaiah 2:22

    Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 17:5

      This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

    • Psalms 146:3

      Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

    • James 4:14

      You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

    • Psalms 144:3–4

      O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

    • Psalms 8:4

      what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

  • Through

    Jeremiah 31:5

    Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria; the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.

    it leads to

    • Amos 9:14

      I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

  • Through

    1 Kings 10:21

    All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 10:17

      He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

  • Through

    Esther 1:7

    Beverages were served in an array of goblets of gold, each with a different design, and the royal wine flowed freely, according to the king’s bounty.

    it leads to

    • Daniel 5:2–4

      Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink…

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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.