2 Chronicles 9 · Verse 28

2 Chronicles 9:28

And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
2 Chronicles 9:28, King James Version

2 Chronicles 9:28 in other translations

BSBSolomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from all the lands.
WEBThey brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt and out of all lands.
ASVAnd they brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
YLTand they are bringing out horses from Egypt to Solomon, and from all the lands.
DARBYAnd they brought to Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
BBEThey got horses for Solomon from Egypt and from every land.
WebsterAnd they brought to Solomon horses from Egypt, and from all lands.

What does 2 Chronicles 9:28 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
28. they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt--(See on 2Ch 1:14). Solomon undoubtedly carried the Hebrew kingdom to its highest pitch of worldly glory. His completion of the grand work, the centralizing of the national worship at Jerusalem, whither the natives went up three times a year, has given his name a prominent place in the history of the ancient church. But his reign had a disastrous influence upon "the peculiar people," and the example of his deplorable idolatries, the connections he formed with foreign princes, the commercial speculations he entered into, and the luxuries introduced into the land, seem in a great measure to have altered and deteriorated the Jewish character.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 9:13-31

The imports here mentioned, would show that prosperity drew the minds of Solomon and his subjects to the love of things curious and uncommon, though useless in themselves. True wisdom and happiness are always united together; but no such alliance exists between wealth and the enjoyment of the things of this life. Let us then acquaint ourselves with the Saviour, that we may find rest for our souls. Here is Solomon…

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2 Chronicles 9:28 in the original Hebrew

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וּמוֹצִיאִ֨יםu.mo.tzi.'Imand [were] brought outH3318
סוּסִ֧יםsu.SimhorsesH5483
מִמִּצְרַ֛יִםmi.mitz.Ra.yimfrom EgyptH4714
לִשְׁלֹמֹ֖הlish.lo.Mohfor SolomonH8010
וּמִכָּל\־u.mi.kol-and from allH3605
הָאֲרָצֽוֹת\׃ha.'a.ra.Tzotthe landsH776

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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 9:28

  • 2 Chronicles 1:16

    And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

  • 1 Kings 10:28

    And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

  • 2 Chronicles 9:25

    And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • Isaiah 31:1

    Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!

  • Isaiah 2:7-8

    Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
brought."Moses," says Bp. Warburton, "had expressly prohibited the multiplying of horses, (De 17:16;) by which the future king was forbidden to establish a body of calvary, because this could not be effected without sending into Egypt, with which people God had forbidden any communication, as this would be dangerous to religion. When Solomon had violated this law, and multiplied horses to excess, (1 Ki 4:26,) it was soon attended with those fatal consequences that the law foretold: for this wisest of kings having likewise, in violation of another law, married Pharaoh's daughter, (the early fruits of this commerce,) and then, by a repetition of the same crime, but a transgression of another law, had espoused more strange women, (1 Ki 4:26; 11:1,) they first,in defiance of a fourth law, persuaded him to build them idol temples for their use; and afterwards, against a fifth law, brought him to erect other temples for his own."
25; 1:16; 1Ki 10:28; Isa 2:7,8; 31:1

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Context

  • 2 Chronicles 9:27

    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.

  • 2 Chronicles 9:28

    And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

  • 2 Chronicles 9:29

    Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

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2 Chronicles 9:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Sacaban también caballos para Salomón, de Egipto y de todas las provincias.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et l’on exportait d’Égypte et de tous les pays des chevaux pour Salomon.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und man führte Rosse aus für Salomo aus Ägypten und aus allen Ländern.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Adducebantur autem ei equi de Ægypto, cunctisque regionibus.