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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 1:17 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| 2Ch 1:17 |
Strong Concordance |
And they fetched up [05927], and brought forth [03318] out of Egypt [04714] a chariot [04818] for six [08337] hundred [03967] shekels of silver [03701], and an horse [05483] for an hundred [03967] and fifty [02572]: and so brought they out [03318] horses for all the kings [04428] of the Hittites [02850], and for the kings [04428] of Syria [0758], by their means [03027]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| brought . . . for all the kings of the Hittites--A branch of this powerful tribe, when expelled from Palestine, had settled north of Lebanon, where they acquired large possessions contiguous to the Syrians. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
A horse for a hundred and fifty - Suppose we take the shekel at the utmost value at which it has been rated, three shillings; then the price of a horse was about twenty-two pounds ten shillings.
On Solomon's multiplying horses, Bishop Warburton has made some judicious remarks: -
"Moses had expressly prohibited the multiplying of horses, Deu 17:16, by which the future king was forbidden to establish a body of cavalry, because this could not be effected without sending into Egypt, with which people God had forbidden any communication, as this would be dangerous to religion. When Solomon had violated this law, and multiplied horses to excess, Kg1 4:26, it was soon attended with those fatal consequences that the law foretold: for this wisest of kings having likewise, in violation of another law, married Pharaoh's daughter, (the early fruits of this commerce), and then, by a repetition of the same crime, but a transgression of another law, having espoused more strange women, Kg1 11:1; they first, in defiance of a fourth law, persuaded him to build them idol temples for their use, and afterwards, against a fifth law, brought him to erect other temples for his own. Now the original of all this mischief was the forbidden traffic with Egypt for horses; for thither were the agents of Solomon sent to mount his cavalry. Nay, this great king even turned factor for the neighboring monarchs, Ch2 1:17, and this opprobrious commerce was kept up by his successors and attended with the same pernicious consequences. Isaiah denounces the mischiefs of this traffic; and foretells that one of the good effects of leaving it would be the forsaking of their idolatries, Isa 31:1, Isa 31:4, Isa 31:6, Isa 31:7." - See Divine Legation, vol. iii., p. 289 and Dr. Dodd's Notes. |
7 For in that day [03117] every man [0376] shall cast away [03988] his idols [0457] of silver [03701], and his idols [0457] of gold [02091], which your own hands [03027] have made [06213] unto you for a sin [02399].
6 Turn [07725] ye unto him from whom the children [01121] of Israel [03478] have deeply [06009] revolted [05627].
4 For thus hath the LORD [03068] spoken [0559] unto me, Like as the lion [0738] and the young lion [03715] roaring [01897] on his prey [02964], when a multitude [04393] of shepherds [07462] is called forth [07121] against him, he will not be afraid [02865] of their voice [06963], nor abase [06031] himself for the noise [01995] of them: so shall the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635] come down [03381] to fight [06633] for mount [02022] Zion [06726], and for the hill [01389] thereof.
1 Woe [01945] to them that go down [03381] to Egypt [04714] for help [05833]; and stay [08172] on horses [05483], and trust [0982] in chariots [07393], because they are many [07227]; and in horsemen [06571], because they are very [03966] strong [06105]; but they look [08159] not unto the Holy One [06918] of Israel [03478], neither seek [01875] the LORD [03068]!
17 And they fetched up [05927], and brought forth [03318] out of Egypt [04714] a chariot [04818] for six [08337] hundred [03967] shekels of silver [03701], and an horse [05483] for an hundred [03967] and fifty [02572]: and so brought they out [03318] horses for all the kings [04428] of the Hittites [02850], and for the kings [04428] of Syria [0758], by their means [03027].
1 But king [04428] Solomon [08010] loved [0157] many [07227] strange [05237] women [0802], together with the daughter [01323] of Pharaoh [06547], women of the Moabites [04125], Ammonites [05984], Edomites [0130], Zidonians [06722], and Hittites [02850];
26 And Solomon [08010] had forty [0705] thousand [0505] stalls [0723] of horses [05483] for his chariots [04817], and twelve [08147] [06240] thousand [0505] horsemen [06571].
16 But he shall not multiply [07235] horses [05483] to himself, nor cause the people [05971] to return [07725] to Egypt [04714], to the end that he should multiply [07235] horses [05483]: forasmuch as the LORD [03068] hath said [0559] unto you, Ye shall henceforth [03254] return [07725] no more that way [01870].