2 Chronicles 1:2

And Solomon gave orders to all Israel, to the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and to the rulers, and to the judges of all Israel, and the heads of the families:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

In Context

1And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him to a high degree.

3And he went with all the multitude to the high place of Gabaon, where was the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, which Moses the servant of God made, in the wilderness.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:4He went therefore to Gabaon, to sacrifice there: for that was the great high place: a thousand victims for holocausts did Solomon offer upon that altar in Gabaon.

1 Chronicles 15:3And he gathered all Israel together into Jerusalem, that the ark of God might be brought into its place, which he had prepared for it.

1 Chronicles 24:4And there were found many more of the sons of Eleazar among the principal men, than of the sons of Ithamar. And he divided them so, that there were of the sons of Eleazar, sixteen chief men by their families: and of the sons of Ithamar eight by their families and houses.

1 Chronicles 27:1Now the children of Israel according to their number, the heads of families, captains of thousands and of hundreds, and officers, that served the king according to their companies, who came in and went out every month in the year, under every chief were four and twenty thousand.

1 Chronicles 29:1And king David said to all the assembly: Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is as yet young and tender: and the work is great, for a house is prepared not for man, but for God.

2 Chronicles 30:2For the king, taking counsel, and the princes, and all the assembly of Jerusalem, decreed to keep the phase the second month.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 1:2-13

Second Chronicles This book begins with the reign of Solomon and the building of the temple, and continues the history of the kings of Judah thenceforward to the captivity and so concludes with the fall of that illustrious monarchy and the destruction of the temple. That monarchy of the house of David, as it was prior in time, so it was superior in worth and dignity to all those four celebrated ones of which Nebuchadnezzar dreamed. The Babylonian monarchy I reckon to begin in Nebuchadnezzar himself— Thou art that… Read the whole commentary →

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