2 Chronicles 9:8

Translations

Modern

Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, He has made you king over them to carry out justice and righteousness.”

Traditional

Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the Lord thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

Literal

YHWH your God be blessed, who delighted in you to set you on His throne as king for YHWH your God. Because your God has loved Israel to establish them forever, therefore He made you king over them to do justice and righteousness.”

Latin

Sit Dominus Deus tuus benedictus, qui voluit te ordinare super thronum suum, regem Domini Dei tui. Quia diligit Deus Israël, et vult servare eum in æternum, idcirco posuit te super eum regem ut facias judicia atque justitiam.

Original

Hebrew

English

Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, He has made you king over them to carry out justice and righteousness.”

Notes

Theme notes and profiles

Solomon

Related verses

2 Chronicles 2:11
Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king.”
1 Chronicles 29:23
So Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of his father David. He prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.
Isaiah 32:1–2
Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice.
Jeremiah 33:15–16
In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
Deuteronomy 7:8
But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Hebrews 1:8–9
But about the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
1 Chronicles 17:22
For You have made Your people Israel Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God.
1 Kings 10:9
Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel spoke; the Rock of Israel said to me, ‘He who rules the people with justice, who rules in the fear of God,
Psalm 22:8
“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”
2 Samuel 15:25–26
Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Parallels

1 Kings 10:1–13

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Chronicles, Books of First and Second Genealogy Sheba (Place)

Topics

Rulers: Duties of Sheba: Queen of, Visits Solomon Solomon is Visited by the Queen of Sheba Solomon: The Splendor of his Court

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