Verse 8
2 Chronicles 9:8
King James Version
8
Blessed be the LORD thy God (Elohim), which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne,
to be king for the LORD thy God (Elohim): because thy God (Elohim) loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
Original Language Text
hebrew
יְהִ֨י יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֨י/ךָ֙ בָּר֔וּךְ אֲשֶׁ֣ר חָפֵ֣ץ בְּ/ךָ֗ לְ/תִתְּ/ךָ֤ עַל כִּסְא/וֹ֙ לְ/מֶ֔לֶךְ לַ/יהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֶ֑י/ךָ בְּ/אַהֲבַ֨ת אֱלֹהֶ֤י/ךָ אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לְ/הַעֲמִיד֣/וֹ לְ/עוֹלָ֔ם וַ/יִּתֶּנְ/ךָ֤ עֲלֵי/הֶם֙ לְ/מֶ֔לֶךְ לַ/עֲשׂ֖וֹת מִשְׁפָּ֥ט וּ/צְדָקָֽה
English Translation
May the LORD your God be blessed, who desired you to set you upon His throne as king for the LORD your God, in the love of your God for Israel, to establish him forever, and He set you over them as king to execute justice and righteousness.
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Chapter 9 Context
1
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questi...
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And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not...
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And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and...
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5
And she said to the king,
It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of...
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6
Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen
it: and, behold, the one ha...
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7
Happy
are thy men, and happy
are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear t...
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8
Blessed be the LORD thy God (Elohim), which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne,
to be king...
9
And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and prec...
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10
And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought...
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11
And the king made
of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king’s palace, an...
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12
And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside
that which...
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13
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talen...
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14
Beside
that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the co...
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15
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred
shekels of beaten gold went to...
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And three hundred shields
made he of beaten gold: three hundred
shekels of gold went to one shield....
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17
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
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18
And
there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold,
which were fastened to the throne,...
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19
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the...
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20
And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon
were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the f...
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21
For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the sh...
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22
And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
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23
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God (Elohim)...
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24
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness...
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25
And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he...
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26
And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the b...
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27
And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that...
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28
And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
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29
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last,
are
they not written in the book of Nathan the...
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And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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31
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam...
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