Passage Research
2 Chronicles 2 — Sermon Preparation
Solomon requests cedar logs and a skilled craftsman from Huram king of Tyre, and organizes a massive workforce for the temple construction. Below is a research summary for 2 Chronicles 2, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 17
- verses
- 327 / 128
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 3
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
2 Chronicles 2 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֶלֶף | ʼeleph | H505 | 12 | thousand |
| בָּנָה | bânâh | H1129 | 7 | build |
| חָכָם | châkâm | H2450 | 6 | wise |
| חוּרָם | Chûwrâm | H2361 | 4 | Churam |
| עֵץ | ʻêts | H6086 | 6 | tree, wood |
| שָׁלַח | shâlach | H7971 | 7 | send |
| יָדַע | yâdaʻ | H3045 | 6 | know, seeing |
How preachers through history handled this text
3 public-domain excerpts on 2 Chronicles 2, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Solomon's trading, which we read of in the close of the foregoing chapter, and the encouragement he gave both to merchandise and manufacturers, were very commendable. But building was the work he was designed for, and to that business he is here applying himself. Here is, I. Solomon's determination to build the temple and a royal palace, and his appointing labourers to be employed herein, ver. 1, 2, 17, 18. II. His request to Huram king of Tyre to furnish him both with artists and materials, ver. 3-10. III. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on 2 Chronicles 2:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Tyre— 2 Chr 2:11
- Great Sea— 2 Chr 2:16
- Jerusalem— 2 Chr 2:16
- Joppa— 2 Chr 2:16
- Lebanon— 2 Chr 2:16
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