2 Chronicles 2:15
in 2 Chronicles 2Now let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine he promised.
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ASV
Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
KJV
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 2
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
a cunning man, endued with understanding
on 2 Chronicles 2:13-16
Huram sends a craftsman called Huram my father's, an honorific title rather than kinship, whose mother is of the daughters of Dan and whose father was a man of Tyre. The pairing recalls Bezaleel of Judah given the tabernacle's chief gift and Aholiab of Dan set beside him at Exodus 31:6, so that a craftsman of Dan's line again stands at the side of Judah's king for the greater house. Kings names the same man's mother of the tribe of Naphtali, a variance the commentators read as a mother married into Naphtali from a Danite family, and neither text is set aside for the other. The letter closes with the wheat, barley, oil and wine confirmed and the timber promised by raft to Joppa, some forty miles short of Jerusalem by land.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
This is an ordinance for ever to Israel. 5 And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods. 6 But who is able to build him a house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
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Now therefore, the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of,.... In his letter to him, 2Ch 2:10 as for the phrase "my lord", which some think is used, because Hiram was tributary to Solomon, it may only be a respectful way of speaking: let him send unto his servants; Hiram accepted thereof as a proper reward for the work of his servants.
The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְ֠עַתָּה | veatah | and therefore | H6258 → | 433 times |
| הַחִטִּ֨ים | hachitim | the wheat<s> | H2406 → | 30 times |
| וְהַשְּׂעֹרִ֜ים | vehaseorim | and the barley<s> | H8184 → | 34 times |
| הַשֶּׁ֤מֶן | hashemen | the oil | H8081 → | 193 times |
| וְהַיַּ֙יִן֙ | vehaiyayin | and the wine | H3196 → | 141 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| אָמַ֣ר | ʾamar | he has said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֲדֹנִ֔י | ʾadoni | lord my | H113 → | 333 times |
| יִשְׁלַ֖ח | yishlach | let him send | H7971 → | 845 times |
| לַעֲבָדָֽיו׃ | laavadav | to servants his | H5650 → | 799 times |
וְ֠עַתָּהand therefore
veatahH6258 →433 times
הַחִטִּ֨יםthe wheat<s>
hachitimH2406 →30 times
וְהַשְּׂעֹרִ֜יםand the barley<s>
vehaseorimH8184 →34 times
הַשֶּׁ֤מֶןthe oil
hashemenH8081 →193 times
וְהַיַּ֙יִן֙and the wine
vehaiyayinH3196 →141 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
אָמַ֣רhe has said
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
אֲדֹנִ֔יlord my
ʾadoniH113 →333 times
יִשְׁלַ֖חlet him send
yishlachH7971 →845 times
לַעֲבָדָֽיו׃to servants his
laavadavH5650 →799 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
7 stopsEach 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 Chronicles 2:10I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”
it leads to
- 1 Kings 5:11
and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
- Luke 10:7
Stay at the same house, eating and drinking whatever you are offered. For the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
- 1 Kings 7:26
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
- 1 Kings 7:38
He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
- Ezra 7:22
up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of olive oil, and salt without limit.
- 1 Kings 5:11
Through
1 Kings 5:11and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 2:10
I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”
- 1 Kings 4:22
Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
- 2 Chronicles 2:10
About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
