Verse Lens · Context pointer
2 Chronicles 8:17 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 17. 17Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
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Role in This Section
This verse opens the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech: “Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Huram's fleet brings Ophir gold.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 8:17–18
Read 2 Chronicles 8:17 with 8:17–18. The selected wording supplies one opening in the thought unit and establishes its first action or speech; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Solomon goes to Red Sea ports, and Huram's servants support a fleet that brings a large quantity of gold from Ophir.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 8:17 depends on 8:17–18; isolating “Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Huram's fleet brings Ophir gold.”
Read 2 Chronicles 8:17–18 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 8:17–18 forms the complete movement “Huram's fleet brings Ophir gold”: Solomon goes to Red Sea ports, and Huram's servants support a fleet that brings a large quantity of gold from Ophir.
Verse 17. 17 Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
Verse 18. 18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
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Read 2 Chronicles 8:17–18 — Huram's fleet brings Ophir goldSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 8:17–18, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
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