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2 Chronicles 8:11 Explained in Context
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Verse 11. 11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
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Quick Meaning
This verse states the thought unit's compressed movement: “And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Pharaoh's daughter is moved from David's house.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 8:10–11
Read 2 Chronicles 8:11 with 8:10–11. The selected wording supplies one statement in the thought unit's compressed movement; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Solomon moves his Egyptian wife away from David's palace because places touched by the ark are considered holy.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Pharaoh's daughter is moved from David's house,” 2 Chronicles 8:11 states the thought unit's compressed movement through the wording “And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: A single verse exposes a gendered and foreign-person boundary inside the temple-centered portrait of Solomon. The single notice about Pharaoh's daughter interrupts Solomon's building and labor report with the narrator's holiness rationale; Kings supplies the marriage and relocation frame without revealing her own voice.
Read 2 Chronicles 8:11–11 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 8:11 forms the complete movement “Pharaoh's daughter is moved from David's house”: Solomon moves his Egyptian wife away from David's palace because places touched by the ark are considered holy.
Verse 11. 11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
Follow the Context
- Solomon moves his Egyptian wife away from David's palace because places touched by the ark are considered holy.
- A single verse exposes a gendered and foreign-person boundary inside the temple-centered portrait of Solomon.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
2 Chronicles 8:11 does not permit the wording “And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that…” to be read apart from the selected verse's context. The relocation does not make foreign women contaminating by nature, excuse Solomon's power over his wife, or authorize religiously coerced separation.
What Remains True
Worship and wisdom remain accountable to covenant, labor, outsiders, resources, and God's freedom; sacred scale never makes royal power or a building immune from review. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Solomon moves his Egyptian wife away from David's palace because places touched by the ark are considered holy. In 2 Chronicles 8:11, the concrete line “And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that….” When worship, buildings, wealth, or leadership are involved, disclose labor and money, welcome outsiders without stigma, preserve covenant limits, and refuse to measure God's presence by scale or spectacle. This response follows from the unit's own movement: Solomon moves his Egyptian wife away from David's palace because places touched by the ark are considered holy.
Teach It Back
Explain why 2 Chronicles 8:11 moves Pharaoh's daughter away from a house touched by the ark. Use 8:10–11, paraphrase “And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read 2 Chronicles 8:11 — Pharaoh's daughter is moved from David's houseSources used for this Verse Lens
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Where care is needed
Chronicles omits Kings' broader critique of Solomon's wives and supplies this holiness rationale; the woman's own voice and experience are absent.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 8:11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 8:11
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 8:11, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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