2 Chronicles 2:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

2 Chronicles 2:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 2:5
And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.
1 Kings 9:8
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
2 Chronicles 7:21
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

Solomon’s wisdom was given him, not merely for speculation, to entertain himself (though it is indeed a princely entertainment), nor merely for conversation, to entertain his friends, but for action; and therefore to action he immediately applies himself. Observe, I. His resolution within himself concerning his business (2 Chron. 2:1): He determined to build, in the first place, a house for the na…