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11 With the timber the king made steps[a] for the Lord’s temple and royal palace as well as stringed instruments[b] for the musicians. No one had seen anything like them in the land of Judah before that.[c])

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 9:11 tn Heb “tracks.” The parallel text in 1 Kgs 10:12 has a different term whose meaning is uncertain: “supports,” perhaps “banisters” or “parapets.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 9:11 tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).
  3. 2 Chronicles 9:11 tn Heb “there was not seen like these formerly in the land of Judah.”

11 The king used the algumwood to make steps for the temple of the Lord and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. Nothing like them had ever been seen in Judah.)

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