Discovery Box2 Chronicles 1:1 
Context1:1 Solomon son of David solidified his royal authority, 1 for 2 the Lord his God was with him and magnified him greatly.
2 Chronicles 1:7-8
Context1:7 That night God appeared 3 to Solomon and said to him, “Tell me 4 what I should give you.” 1:8 Solomon replied to God, “You demonstrated 5 great loyalty to my father David and have made me king in his place.
2 Chronicles 1:13
Context1:13 Solomon left the meeting tent at the worship center in Gibeon and went to Jerusalem, where he reigned over Israel. 6
2 Chronicles 1:16
Context1:16 Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt 7 and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.
2 Chronicles 2:1
Context2:1 (1:18) 8 Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. 9
2 Chronicles 8:17
Context8:17 Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Elat on the coast in the land of Edom.
2 Chronicles 9:3
Context9:3 When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, 10 the palace 11 he had built,
2 Chronicles 9:15
Context9:15 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures 12 of hammered gold were used for each shield.
2 Chronicles 9:23
Context9:23 All the kings of the earth wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom. 13
2 Chronicles 11:3
Context11:3 “Say this to King Rehoboam son of Solomon of Judah and to all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin,
2 Chronicles 13:6
Context13:6 Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master.
2 Chronicles 35:4
Context35:4 Prepare yourselves by your families according to your divisions, as instructed 14 by King David of Israel and his son Solomon.
1 tn Heb “and Solomon son of David strengthened himself over his kingdom.”
2 tn The disjunctive clause (note the vav [ו] + subject pattern) probably has a causal nuance here.
3 tn Or “revealed himself.”
4 tn Heb “ask.”
5 tn Heb “did.”
6 tn Heb “and Solomon came from the high place which was in Gibeon [to] Jerusalem, from before the tent of meeting, and he reigned over Israel.”
7 sn Because Que is also mentioned, some prefer to see 1 Kgs 10:28-29 as a reference to Mutsur. Que and Mutsur were located in Cilicia or Cappadocia (in modern southern Turkey). See HALOT 625 s.v. מִצְרַיִם.
8 sn Beginning with 2:1, the verse numbers through 2:18 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 2:1 ET = 1:18 HT, 2:2 ET = 2:1 HT, 2:3 ET = 2:2 HT, etc., through 2:18 ET = 2:17 HT. Beginning with 3:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
9 tn Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the
10 tn Heb “all the wisdom of Solomon.”
11 tn Heb “house.”
12 tn The Hebrew text has simply “600,” with no unit of measure given.
13 tn Heb “and all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”
14 tn Heb “written.”
