Discovery Box2 Chronicles 1:2-3 
Context1:2 Solomon addressed all Israel, including those who commanded units of a thousand and a hundred, the judges, and all the leaders of all Israel who were heads of families. 1:3 Solomon and the entire assembly went to the worship center 1 in Gibeon, for the tent where they met God 2 was located there, which Moses the Lord’s servant had made in the wilderness.
2 Chronicles 1:5
Context1:5 But the bronze altar made by Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, was in front of the Lord’s tabernacle. 3 Solomon and the entire assembly prayed to him 4 there.)
2 Chronicles 2:3
Context2:3 Solomon sent a message to King Huram 5 of Tyre: 6 “Help me 7 as you did my father David, when you sent him cedar logs 8 for the construction of his palace. 9
2 Chronicles 2:17
Context2:17 Solomon took a census 10 of all the male resident foreigners in the land of Israel, after the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 in all.
2 Chronicles 3:1
Context3:1 Solomon began building the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem 11 on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan 12 the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 5:1
Context5:1 When Solomon had finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and all the other articles) in the treasuries of God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 5:6
Context5:6 Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered. 13
2 Chronicles 7:8
Context7:8 At that time Solomon and all Israel with him celebrated a festival for seven days. This great assembly included people from Lebo Hamath in the north to the Brook of Egypt in the south. 14
2 Chronicles 7:12
Context7:12 the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: “I have answered 15 your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made. 16
2 Chronicles 8:8
Context8:8 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews and they continue in that role to this very day. 17
2 Chronicles 8:16
Context8:16 All the work ordered by Solomon was completed, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid until it was finished; the Lord’s temple was completed.
2 Chronicles 9:9
Context9:9 She gave the king 120 talents 18 of gold and a very large quantity of spices and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched. 19
2 Chronicles 10:6
Context10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 20 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 21 “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
2 Chronicles 12:9
Context12:9 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.
1 tn Or “high place.”
2 tn Heb “the tent of meeting of God.”
3 sn The tabernacle was located in Gibeon; see 1 Chr 21:29.
4 tn Heb “sought [or “inquired of”] him.”
5 tn Heb “Huram.” Some medieval Hebrew
6 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
7 tn The words “help me” are supplied in the translation for clarification and stylistic reasons.
8 tn Heb “cedars.” The word “logs” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “to build for him a house to live in it.”
10 tn Heb “counted.”
11 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
12 tn In 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (“Aravna”; traditionally “Araunah”). The form of the name found here also occurs in 1 Chr 21:15; 18-28.
13 tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”
14 tn Heb “Solomon held the festival at that time for seven days, and all Israel was with him, a very great assembly from Lebo Hamath to the wadi of Egypt.”
15 tn Heb “I have heard.”
16 tn Heb “temple of sacrifice.” This means the
17 tn Heb “from their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel did not wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a work crew to this day.”
18 tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold was 8,076 lbs. (3,672 kg).
19 tn Heb “there has not been like those spices which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.”
20 tn Heb “stood before.”
21 tn Heb “saying.”
