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2 Chronicles 1:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Chariots, horses, and trade display royal abundance.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 1:14–17
Read 2 Chronicles 1:15 with 1:14–17. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Solomon accumulates chariots and horsemen, concentrates them in royal centers, and participates in Egypt-linked trade serving other kings.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 1:15 depends on 1:14–17; isolating “And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Chariots, horses, and trade display royal abundance.”
Read 2 Chronicles 1:14–17 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 1:14–17 forms the complete movement “Chariots, horses, and trade display royal abundance”: Solomon accumulates chariots and horsemen, concentrates them in royal centers, and participates in Egypt-linked trade serving other kings.
Verse 14. 14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
Verse 15. 15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
Verse 16. 16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
Verse 17. 17 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 1:14–17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
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