The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar trees as abundant as the sycamores which are in the lowland.
- NASB And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
- NLT The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.
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Silver became as common as stones and cedar as plentiful as sycamores in Jerusalem. It vividly portrays the abundance of Solomon's era.
Overview
The hyperbolic comparisons stress the extraordinary prosperity of the capital. Precious metal and fine wood were as ordinary as the most common materials. Such plenty illustrates the fullness of God's blessing on the kingdom.
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Cross-references · 9
- 2 Chr 1:15–17The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- Job 22:24–25and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
- Isa 9:10“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“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.
- 2 Chr 9:20All 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.
- Ps 78:47He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
- 1 Kgs 10:27–29The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- Luke 19:4So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.
- 1 Chr 27:28Baal-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.
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