2 Chronicles 9:27

Silver became as common as stones and cedar as plentiful as sycamores in Jerusalem. It vividly portrays the abundance of Solomon's era.

Cross-references · 9

• 2 Chr 1:15–17The king made silver and gold to be as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
• Job 22:24–25Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
• Isa 9:10“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
• Amos 7:14Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
• 2 Chr 9:20All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.
• Ps 78:47He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
• 1 Kgs 10:27–29The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
• Luke 19:4He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.
• 1 Chr 27:28and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash;

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