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2 Chronicles 9:4 Explained in Context

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Verse 4. And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

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Role in This Section

Adds food, officials, servants, clothing, cupbearers, and temple ascent.

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  • 2 Chronicles 9:1–9:12

Adds food, officials, servants, clothing, cupbearers, and temple ascent. Read 2 Chronicles 9:4 within 9:1–9:12. The complete unit records: A foreign queen arrives with hard questions and wealth, judges Solomon's wisdom and court order, blesses Israel's God, exchanges gifts, and returns home.

Why It Needs Context

Adds food, officials, servants, clothing, cupbearers, and temple ascent. Its responsible force depends on 9:1–9:12; isolated from “The Queen of Sheba tests Solomon,” the supporting action, name, number, object, quotation, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.

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Read 2 Chronicles 9:1–9:12 — The Queen of Sheba tests Solomon
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King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 9:1–9:12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 9:1–9:12

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