2 Chronicles 9:27
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.”
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“The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And the king maketh the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he hath made as sycamores, that <FI>are<Fi> in the low country, for abundance,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Chronicles 9:27 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- 1 Chronicles 27:28Baal-hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the foothills. Joash was in charge of the stores of olive oil.
- 2 Chronicles 1:15The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- 2 Chronicles 9:20All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
- Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
- Psalms 78:47He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
- Isaiah 9:10“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
- Amos 7:14“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
- Luke 19:4So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.
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