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2 Chronicles 8:11

in 2 Chronicles 8

Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Jehovah hath come.

KJV

And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the Lord hath come.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 8

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The house - He built this house for her; because the ark was now in the house of David, which therefore ought to be kept pure and free from the very danger and appearance of pollution.

This site's exposition

the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David

Solomon moves Pharaoh's daughter out of the city of David into a house built for her, and Chronicles alone records the reason he gives: the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come. The ark had stood in the city of David since David's own procession in 1 Chronicles 15, and even after its move to the temple, Solomon judges no foreign wife fit to dwell there. Wesley reads the concern as guarding against the very appearance of pollution rather than any specific fault charged against her. 1 Kings 9:24 records the same move without stating the reason; the motive here is the Chronicler's own addition.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The building of the temple was in order to the service of the temple. Whatever cost he was at in rearing the structure, if he had neglected the worship that was to be performed there, it would all have been to no purpose.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her--On his marriage with the Egyptian princess at the beginning of his reign, he assigned her a temporary abode in the city of David, that is, Jerusalem, until a suitable palace for his wife had been erected.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The daughter of Pharaoh - “And Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, Solomon brought up from the city of David to the palace which he had built for her.” - T. Because the places are holy - Is not this a proof that he considered his wife to be a heathen, and not proper to dwell in a place which had been sanctified? Solomon had not yet departed from the true God.
Of Pharaoh - Here again the writer of Chronicles assumes in his reader a knowledge of the facts recorded in the marginal references

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Solomon brought up from the City of David That is Zion, for he let her dwell in the City of David when he married her, and she was there until he completed building his palace.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 8:11:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
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on the altar of the Lord This was the copper altar that Solomon built.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Chronicles 8:12:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

29 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.

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • בַּת־[the] daughter of

    bat-H1323588 times

  • פַּרְעֹ֗הPharaoh

    parohH6547

  • הֶעֱלָ֤הhe brought up

    heelahH5927890 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹה֙Solomon

    shelomohH8010291 times

  • מֵעִ֣ירfrom [the] city of

    meirH58921090 times

  • דָּוִ֔ידDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • לַבַּ֖יִתto the house

    labayitH10042046 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • בָּֽנָה־he had built

    banah-H1129376 times

  • לָ֑הּfor her

    lah

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • אָמַ֗רhe said

    ʾamarH5595305 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H38085168 times

  • תֵשֵׁ֨בshe will dwell

    teshevH34271079 times

  • אִשָּׁ֥הa wife

    ʾishahH802781 times

  • לִי֙of me

    li

  • בְּבֵית֙in [the] house of

    beveitH10042046 times

  • דָּוִ֣ידDavid

    davidH1732999 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • כִּי־for

    ki-H35884482 times

  • קֹ֣דֶשׁ[are] holiness

    kodeshH6944469 times

  • הֵ֔מָּהthey

    hemahH1992553 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־[places] where

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • בָּֽאָ֥הit has come

    baahH9352568 times

  • אֲלֵיהֶ֖םto them

    ʾaleihemH4135510 times

  • אֲר֥וֹן[the] ark of

    ʾaronH727202 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃ פYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

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

    1 Kings 3:1

    Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 9:24

      As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    1 Kings 7:8

    And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 3:1

      Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    2 Peter 1:18

    And we ourselves heard this voice from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 17:6

      When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown in terror.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 21:2

    “Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 20:46

      “Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.

  • Through

    1 Kings 9:24

    As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 7:8

      And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.

    • 2 Samuel 5:9

      So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.

    • 1 Kings 11:27

      and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

    • 2 Chronicles 32:5

      Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City…

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.