2 Tawarikh 1:14

Solomon’s Wealth

1:14 Solomon accumulated ¹  chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. ² 

2 Tawarikh 9:4

9:4 the food in his banquet hall, ³  his servants and attendants ⁴  in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple, ⁵  she was amazed. ⁶ 

2 Tawarikh 28:3

28:3 He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, ⁷  a horrible sin practiced by the nations ⁸  whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.

[1:14]  ¹ tn Or “gathered.”

[1:14]  ² tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”

[1:14]  map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:4]  ³ tn Heb “the food on his table.”

[9:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”

[9:4]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the Lord.” But עֲלִיָּתוֹ (’aliyyato, “his upper room”) should be emended to עֹלָתוֹ, (’olato, “his burnt sacrifice[s]”). See the parallel account in 1 Kgs 10:5.

[9:4]  ⁶ tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”

[28:3]  ⁷ sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB “burnt his sons in the fire”; NASB “burned his sons in the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.

[28:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”