2 Chronicles 2:3

2:3 Solomon sent a message to King Huram¹ of Tyre:² “Help me³ as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs⁴ for the construction of his palace.⁵

2 Chronicles 9:11

9:11 With the timber the king made steps⁶ for the Lord’s temple and royal palace as well as stringed instruments⁷ for the musicians. No one had seen anything like them in the land of Judah prior to that.⁸)

2 Chronicles 9:16

9:16 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; 300 measures⁹ of gold were used for each of those shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest.¹⁰

2 Chronicles 12:9

12:9 King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.

2 Chronicles 16:2

16:2 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and sent it to King Ben Hadad of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:

2 Chronicles 21:17

21:17 They attacked Judah and swept through it.¹¹ They carried off everything they found in the royal palace,¹² including his sons and wives. None of his sons was left, except for his youngest, Ahaziah.

2 Chronicles 23:5

23:5 Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others¹³ will stand in the courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 25:19

25:19 You defeated Edom¹⁴ and it has gone to your head.¹⁵ Gloat over your success,¹⁶ but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?”¹⁷

¹tn Heb “Huram.” Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.

²map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

³tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.

⁴tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”

⁶tn Heb “tracks.” The parallel text in 1 Kgs 10:12 has a different term whose meaning is uncertain: “supports,” perhaps “banisters” or “parapets.”

⁷tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).

⁸tn Heb “there was not seen like these formerly in the land of Judah.”

⁹tn The Hebrew text has simply “300,” with no unit of measure given.

¹⁰sn This name was appropriate because of the large amount of cedar, undoubtedly brought from Lebanon, used in its construction. The cedar pillars in the palace must have given it the appearance of a forest. See 1 Kgs 7:2.

¹¹tn Heb “broke it up.”

¹²tn Heb “all the property which was found in the house of the king.”

¹³tn Heb “all the people.”

¹⁴tn Heb “you say [to yourself], ‘look, you have defeated Edom.’”

¹⁵tn Heb “and your heart is lifted up.”

¹⁶tn Heb “to glorify.”

¹⁷tn Heb “Why get involved in calamity and fall, you and Judah with you?”