2 Chronicles 9:30

Soothly Solomon reigned in Jerusalem on all Israel (for) forty years,

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

In Context

29Soothly the residue of the former works and the last of Solomon (or And the rest of the first and the last deeds of Solomon), be written in the words of Nathan, the prophet, and in the words of Ahijah of Shiloh, and in the vision, either prophecy, of Iddo, the prophet, against Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

31and he slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David, and Rehoboam, his son, reigned for him.

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Cross References

1 Kings 11:42And the days in which Solomon reigned in Jerusalem upon all Israel, be forty years.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 9:14-31

The Magnificence of Solomon; the Death of Solomon. ( b. c. 975.) 13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; 14 Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon. 15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target. 16 And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of… Read the whole commentary →

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