Discovery Box2 Chronicles 2:1 
ContextSolomon Gathers Building Materials for the Temple
2:1 (1:18) 1 Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. 2
2 Chronicles 9:3
Context9:3 When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s extensive wisdom, 3 the palace 4 he had built,
1 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.
2 tn Heb “and Solomon said to build a house for the name of the
3 tn Heb “all the wisdom of Solomon.”
4 tn Heb “house.”
