The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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2 Chronicles 9:18 (ESV)
The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests,

 

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2 Chronicles 9:16 (RSV)

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into each shield.

Should be.......

2 Chronicles 9:16 (RSV)
And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

2 Chronicles 9:19 (KJV)
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

 

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Should be.......

2 Chronicles 9:16 (RSV)
And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

2 Chronicles 9:19 (KJV)
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

Thanks for catching that. I redid verse 15.
2 Chronicles 9:20 (ESV)

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 not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 9:21 (ESV)

For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 9:22 (ERV)
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 9:23 (ESV)

And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 9:24 (ESV)

Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and of gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Chronicles 9:25
New International Version

Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses,[i] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
i. Or charioteers

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 9:26 (ESV)

And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 9:27 (ESV)

And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.

 

[posthuman]

and they were bringing horses for Solomon from Egypt and from all countries
(2 Chronicles 9:28)​

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 9:29 (ESV)

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 9:30 (ESV)

Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 9:31 (King James 2000 Bible)
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 10:1 (NKJV)

The Revolt Against Rehoboam

1. And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 10:2 (NKJV)

So it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it (he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon), that Jeroboam returned from Egypt.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 10:3 (ERV)
And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spake to Rehoboam, saying,

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 10:4 (NIV)


“Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

 

[Deade]

2 Chronicles 10:5 (NIV)


Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people went away.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Chronicles 10:6 (ESV)
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”