2 Chronicles 2
2 Chronicles 2 is the second chapter of the Second Book of Chronicles the Old Testament of the Christian Bible or of the second part of the Books of Chronicles in the Hebrew Bible. The book is compiled from older sources by an unknown person or group, designated by modern scholars as "the Chronicler", and had the final shape established in late fifth or fourth century BCE. This chapter belongs to the section focusing on the kingship of Solomon. The focus of this chapter is Solomon's ascension and wealth.
Text
This chapter was originally written in the Hebrew language and is divided into 18 verses in Christian Bibles, but into 17 verses in the Hebrew Bible with the following verse numbering comparison:| English | Hebrew |
| 1:1-17 | 1:1-17 |
| 2:1 | 1:18 |
| 2:2-18 | 2:1-17 |
This article generally follows the common numbering in Christian English Bible versions, with notes to the numbering in Hebrew Bible versions.
Textual witnesses
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text, which includes the Aleppo Codex and Codex Leningradensis.There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, and Codex Alexandrinus.
Old Testament references
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Solomon gathers building materials for the Temple (2:1–10)
The section records Solomon's request to Huram the king of Tyre, who was a friend of David, in which the skilfully structured message actually contains temple worship theology, establishing the temple as the second tabernacle with rituals as stated in the Torah as the ground for the dedicatory prayer in 2 Chronicles 6:18. The man sent by Huram should be skilled in carpentry, as well as other crafts and works with various materials, basically an equivalent of Bezalel and his assistant Oholiab, who constructed the tabernacle at Mount Sinai. Solomon worked together with the Phoenicians in parallel with what David did.Verse 4
- "Sweet incense": literally "incense of spices"
- "Set feasts": or "appointed feasts"