2 Chronicles 9:27 “The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as ab…”

2 Chronicles 9:27

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the King gaue siluer in Ierusalem, as stones, and gaue cedar trees as the wilde fig trees, that are aboundant in the plaine.

Darby Translation

And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he as the sycamores that are in the lowland for abundance.

Young's Literal Translation

And the king maketh the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he hath made as sycamores, that [are] in the low country, for abundance,

Bible in Basic English

The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

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Cross references

“the king”

2 Chronicles 1:15–17 2 Chronicles 9:20 1 Kings 10:27–29 Job 22:24 Job 22:25

2 Chronicles 1:15–17 · BSB

The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

2 Chronicles 9:20 · BSB

All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 10:27–29 · BSB

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

Job 22:24 · BSB

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

Job 22:25 · BSB

then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.

“made”

1 Chronicles 27:28 Psalm 78:47 Isaiah 9:10 Amos 7:14 Luke 19:4

1 Chronicles 27:28 · BSB

Baal-hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the foothills. Joash was in charge of the stores of olive oil.

Psalm 78:47 · BSB

He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Isaiah 9:10 · BSB

“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

Amos 7:14 · BSB

“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.

Luke 19:4 · BSB

So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26He reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.

28Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from all the lands.

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