2 Chronicles 9:27

Modern

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

Traditional

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.

Literal

And the king made the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees he made as abundant as the sycamores that are in the Shephelah.

Latin

Tantamque copiam præbuit argenti in Jerusalem quasi lapidum: et cedrorum tantam multitudinem velut sycomororum quæ gignuntur in campestribus.

Hebrew

English

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

Theme notes and profiles

2 Chronicles 1:15–17
The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
Luke 19:4
So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.
2 Chronicles 9:20
All 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.
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.
1 Kings 10:27–29
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
Psalm 78:47
He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
1 Chronicles 27:28
Baal-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.
Job 22:24–25
…and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
Isaiah 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.”

Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions Shephelah: Lowland region between Judean hills and coastal plain