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2 Chronicles 9:28 Explained in Context
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Verse 28. 28And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
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Role in This Section
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Wisdom, tribute, chariots, and horses define supremacy.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 9:22–28
Read 2 Chronicles 9:28 with 9:22–28. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Solomon surpasses kings in riches and wisdom, receives annual gifts, maintains chariot forces, and imports horses for surrounding rulers.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 9:28 depends on 9:22–28; isolating “And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Wisdom, tribute, chariots, and horses define supremacy.”
Read 2 Chronicles 9:22–28 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 9:22–28 forms the complete movement “Wisdom, tribute, chariots, and horses define supremacy”: Solomon surpasses kings in riches and wisdom, receives annual gifts, maintains chariot forces, and imports horses for surrounding rulers.
Verse 22. 22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
Verse 23. 23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
Verse 24. 24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Verse 25. 25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
Verse 26. 26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
Verse 27. 27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
Verse 28. 28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
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Read 2 Chronicles 9:22–28 — Wisdom, tribute, chariots, and horses define supremacySources 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 9:22–28, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
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