2 Chronicles 1 — Solomon seeks wisdom and establishes his kingdom — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Chapter 1 — Solomon seeks wisdom and establishes his kingdom
The sanctuary at Gibeon
Verse 1:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:1] Solomon son of David strengthened himself over his kingdom. YHWH his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:1] Solomon son of David grew strong over his kingdom. The Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both attribute Solomon's strength and greatness to divine accompaniment.
Verse 1:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:2] Solomon spoke to all Israel: the commanders of thousands and hundreds, the judges, and every prince of all Israel, the ancestral heads.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:2] Solomon spoke to all Israel: the commanders of thousands and hundreds, the judges, and all the rulers before Israel, the ancestral rulers.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both enumerate the assembled leadership. Greek before Israel differs modestly from Hebrew's leadership affiliation to all Israel.
Verse 1:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:3] Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place in Gibeon, for God's Tent of Meeting was there, which Moses, YHWH's servant, had made in the wilderness.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:3] Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place in Gabaon, where God's Tent of Testimony was, which Moses, the Lord's servant, had made in the wilderness.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The tent is Meeting in Hebrew and Testimony in Greek. Both identify the wilderness sanctuary and its maker.
Verse 1:4 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:4] But David had brought God's ark up from Kiriath-jearim to the place David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:4] But David had brought God's ark up from the city of Kariathiarim, because he had prepared a tent for it in Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek adds city but compresses the two Hebrew preparation and tent-pitching clauses into one. The ark is distinguished from the sanctuary at Gibeon in both.
Verse 1:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:5] He placed the bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur had made before YHWH's dwelling, and Solomon and the assembly sought it out.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:5] The bronze altar that Beseleel son of Ouriou son of Or had made was there before the Lord's tent, and Solomon and the assembly sought it out.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The displayed Hebrew written form is a placing verb, with an unstated subject, rather than Greek's there it was. The last Hebrew pronoun could refer to seeking God or the altar; Greek's neuter pronoun explicitly refers to the altar. No undocumented read-form is substituted.
Verse 1:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:6] Solomon offered there upon the bronze altar before YHWH, which belonged to the Tent of Meeting; he offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:6] Solomon offered there upon the bronze altar before the Lord, the one in the tent; he offered a thousandfold whole burnt offering upon it.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew locates the altar as belonging to the Tent of Meeting; Greek says in the tent without Meeting or Testimony here. Greek has a singular offering qualified as thousandfold; Hebrew has plural offerings and the number a thousand.
The gift of wisdom
Verse 1:7 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:7] That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask what I should give you.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:7] That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask what I should give you.”
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both narrate a nocturnal appearance and invitation, without adding a dream designation from the Kings parallel.
Verse 1:8 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:8] Solomon said to God, “You showed great kindness to David my father, and You made me king in his place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:8] Solomon said to God, “You showed great mercy to David my father, and You made me king in his place.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Kindness and mercy render the corresponding terms for God's prior favor to David.
Verse 1:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:9] Now, YHWH God, let Your word with David my father be confirmed, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:9] Now, Lord God, let Your name be confirmed upon David my father, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The object to be confirmed is Your word in Hebrew and Your name in Greek. The population image and divine appointment agree.
Verse 1:10 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:10] Now give me wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out before this people and come in, for who can judge this great people of Yours?”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:10] Now give me wisdom and understanding, and I will go out before this people and come in, for who can judge this great people of Yours?”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Hebrew knowledge corresponds to Greek understanding. Both express governing through the going-out and coming-in idiom and ask for the ability to judge.
Verse 1:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:11] God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you did not ask for wealth, possessions, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor did you ask for many days, but asked for wisdom and knowledge to judge My people over whom I made you king,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:11] God said to Solomon, “Because this came into your heart, and you did not ask for wealth of possessions, glory, or the life of opponents, and did not ask for many days, but asked for wisdom and understanding to judge My people over whom I made you king,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek combines wealth and possessions as wealth of possessions and leaves the opponents' relation to Solomon unexpressed. Both contrast these requests with wisdom for judging God's people.
Verse 1:12 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:12] wisdom and knowledge are given to you. I will also give you wealth, possessions, and honor such as the kings before you did not have, nor will it be so after you.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:12] I give you wisdom and understanding. I will also give you wealth, possessions, and glory, so that none like you has existed among the kings before you, nor will it be so after you.”
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Greek explicitly names the divine giving subject and compares the king himself; Hebrew states the gifts are given and compares their extent. Both promise exceptional endowment.
Verse 1:13 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:13] Solomon came to the high place that was in Gibeon, to Jerusalem, from before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:13] Solomon came from the bama in Gabaon to Jerusalem, from before the Tent of Testimony, and he reigned over Israel.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The displayed Hebrew says to the high place, yielding an awkward itinerary with to Jerusalem; Greek explicitly says from bama. The Hebrew is retained without silently emending its preposition. Greek transliterates bama and uses Testimony for Meeting.
Wealth and the resolve to build
Verse 1:14 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:14] Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had a thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:14] Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had a thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. He left them in the chariot cities, and the people were with the king in Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek has a separate people-with-the-king clause where Hebrew continues the military stationing clause. The chariot and horseman totals agree.
Verse 1:15 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:15] The king made silver and gold in Jerusalem as plentiful as stones, and cedars as plentiful as the sycamore-fig trees in the lowland.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:15] The king made gold and silver in Jerusalem like stones, and cedars in Judea as abundant as the sycamores in the plain.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek reverses gold and silver and adds Judea as the location of the cedars. Both use stones and common lowland trees as abundance comparisons.
Verse 1:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:16] Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's merchants took them from Kue at a price.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:16] Solomon's horses came out of Egypt, and there was the price of the king's merchants; they bought them to trade,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew miqwe is provisionally construed as from Kue, though a collection or trading interpretation is possible. Greek has a compressed price-and-trade construction and no separate named Kue. No linen commodity is inserted.
Verse 1:17 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:17] They brought up and exported from Egypt a chariot for six hundred in silver and a horse for a hundred fifty. Likewise through their hands they exported them for all the Hittite kings and the kings of Aram.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:17] and they went up and exported from Egypt one chariot for six hundred in silver and a horse for a hundred fifty. Likewise they brought them through their hands for all the kings of the Chettites and the kings of Syria.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The prices and trading partners agree. Neither displayed text explicitly names a silver denomination here; no minted coin or named weight is supplied in the running translation.
Verse 1:18 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 1:18] Solomon resolved to build a house for YHWH's name and a house for his kingdom.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 1:18] Solomon resolved to build a house for the Lord's name and a house for his kingdom.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both source editions place this resolve in chapter one, verse eighteen; it corresponds to common English chapter two, verse one.