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2 Chronicles 9:10

in 2 Chronicles 9

(The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, that brought gold from Ophir, brought algum-trees and precious stones.

KJV

And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 9

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

So that, all things considered, the promise was fulfilled, that God would give him riches, and wealth, and honour, such as no kings have had, or shall have, ch. i.

This site's exposition

brought gold from Ophir

on 2 Chronicles 9:10-11

The narrator breaks from the queen's visit to note Huram's servants bringing algum wood from Ophir, which Solomon turns into terraces for the temple and the palace, and into harps and psalteries for singers. Kings calls the same wood almug and uses it for pillars; the Chronicler's own interest lands the timber instead on the instruments of the Levitical choirs he founded at 1 Chr 25. A visitor's gold funds the building; a trading partner's wood funds the singing.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וְגַם־and also

    vegam-H1571769 times

  • עַבְדֵ֤י[the] servants of

    ʾavdeiH5650799 times

  • חוּרָם֙Huram

    chiramH236113 times

  • וְעַבְדֵ֣יand [the] servants of

    veavdeiH5650799 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֔הSolomon

    shelomohH8010291 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • הֵבִ֥יאוּthey brought

    heviuH9352568 times

  • זָהָ֖בgold

    zahavH2091389 times

  • מֵאוֹפִ֑ירfrom Ophir

    meofirH211

  • הֵבִ֛יאוּthey brought

    heviuH9352568 times

  • עֲצֵ֥יwood<s> of

    ʾatzeiH6086328 times

  • אַלְגּוּמִּ֖יםalgum<s>

    ʾalgumimH4183 times

  • וְאֶ֥בֶןand stone[s]

    veevenH68273 times

  • יְקָרָֽה׃precious

    yekarahH336836 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 10:11

    (The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 9:27–28

      And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    1 Kings 10:22

    For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 22:48

      Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.

    • 2 Chronicles 20:36–37

      They agreed to make ships to go to Tarshish, and these were built in Ezion-geber.

    • Genesis 10:4

      And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

    • Psalms 48:7

      With a wind from the east You wrecked the ships of Tarshish.

    • Psalms 72:10

      May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 8:18

    So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 9:13

      The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,

    • Ecclesiastes 2:8

      and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—many concubines.

About 2 Chronicles

Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.