2 Chronicles 9:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

2 Chronicles 9:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 10:18-20
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. …
Psalms 45:8
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

Commentary

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

(vv. 13-30)

We have here Solomon in his throne, and Solomon in his grave; for the throne would not secure him from the grave. Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat — Death wrenches from the hand the sceptre as well as the spade. I. Here is Solomon reigning in wealth and power, in ease and fulness, such as, for aught I know, could never since be paralleled by any king whatsoever. In cannot pretend to be critical in co…