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2 Chronicles 9:27

JerusalemShephelah

25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.

28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
KJV
And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
WEB
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
ASV
And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
DARBY
And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he as the sycamores that are in the lowland for abundance.
BLB
And the king made the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees he made as abundant as the sycamores that [are] in the Shephelah.
ÅB
Kongen gjorde sølvet i Jerusalem like så almindelig som stein, og sedertre like så almindelig som morbærtrærne i lavlandet.
OTB
Kongen gjorde sølv like vanlig som steiner i Jerusalem, og han gjorde sedertre like rikelig som morbærtrær i lavlandet.
B1930
Kongen gjorde sølvet i Jerusalem like så almindelig som sten, og sedertre like så almindelig som morbærtrærne i lavlandet.

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Cross references

  • 2 Chronicles 1:15–17

    And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.

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  • 2 Chronicles 9:20

    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.

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  • Job 22:24–25

    Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

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  • 1 Chronicles 27:28

    And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:

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  • Isaiah 9:10

    The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

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  • 1 Kings 10:27–29

    And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.

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  • Luke 19:4

    And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.

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  • Amos 7:14

    Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

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