Passage Research
2 Chronicles 1 — Sermon Preparation
Solomon goes to Gibeon to worship, asks God for wisdom rather than wealth or power, and is granted wisdom along with great riches and honor. Below is a research summary for 2 Chronicles 1, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 2
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
2 Chronicles 1 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁלֹמֹה | Shᵉlômôh | H8010 | 12 | Shelomah |
| מַדָּע | maddâʻ | H4093 | 3 | intelligence, consciousness |
| שָׁאַל | shâʼal | H7592 | 4 | inquire, request |
| נָתַן | nâthan | H5414 | 6 | give, put |
| דָּוִד | Dâvid | H1732 | 5 | David |
| אֹהֶל | ʼôhel | H168 | 4 | tent |
| מָלַךְ | mâlak | H4427 | 4 | reign, ascend the throne |
How preachers through history handled this text
2 public-domain excerpts on 2 Chronicles 1, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“In the close of the foregoing book we read how God magnified Solomon and Israel obeyed him; God and Israel concurred to honour him. Now here we have an account, I. How he honoured God by sacrifice (ver. 1-6) and by prayer, ver. 7-12. II. How he honoured Israel by increasing their strength, wealth, and trade, ver. 13-17. God's Goodness to Solomon. (b. c. 1015.) 1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on 2 Chronicles 1:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Gibeon— 2 Chr 1:13
- Jerusalem— 2 Chr 1:13
- Shephelah— 2 Chr 1:15
- Egypt— 2 Chr 1:16
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