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2 Chronicles 9 — Sermon Preparation
The queen of Sheba tests Solomon's wisdom and is overwhelmed; the chapter catalogs his enormous wealth and tribute from nations across the world. Below is a research summary for 2 Chronicles 9, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 31
- verses
- 486 / 197
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
2 Chronicles 9 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁלֹמֹה | Shᵉlômôh | H8010 | 21 | Shelomah |
| זָהָב | zâhâb | H2091 | 16 | gold, something gold-colored |
| חׇכְמָה | chokmâh | H2451 | 6 | wisdom |
| נָתַן | nâthan | H5414 | 9 | give, put |
| דָּבָר | dâbâr | H1697 | 8 | word, matter |
| שְׁבָא | Shᵉbâʼ | H7614 | 4 | Sheba |
| מֵאָה | mêʼâh | H3967 | 6 | hundred |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on 2 Chronicles 9, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Solomon here continues to appear great both at home and abroad. We had this account of his grandeur, 1 Kings x. Nothing is here added; but his defection towards his latter end, which we have there (ch. xi.), is here omitted, and the close of this chapter brings him to the grave with an unstained reputation. Perhaps none of the chapters in the Chronicles agree so much with a chapter in the Kings as this does with 1 Kings x. verse for verse, only that the first two verses there are put into one here, and verse 25 here is taken from 1 Kings iv. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 2 (Joshua to Esther), on 2 Chronicles 9:1–31 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— 2 Chr 9:1
- Sheba 1— 2 Chr 9:1
- Ophir— 2 Chr 9:10
- Arabia 1— 2 Chr 9:14
- House of the Forest of Lebanon— 2 Chr 9:16
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