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2 Chronicles 9:3-5
New English Translation
2 Chronicles 9:3-5
New English Translation
3 When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon’s wisdom, the palace[a] he had built, 4 the food in his banquet hall,[b] his servants and attendants[c] in their robes, his cupbearers in their robes, and his burnt sacrifices which he presented in the Lord’s temple,[d] she was amazed.[e] 5 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight[f] was true!
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- 2 Chronicles 9:3 tn Heb “house.”
- 2 Chronicles 9:4 tn Heb “the food on his table.”
- 2 Chronicles 9:4 tn Heb “the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants.”
- 2 Chronicles 9:4 tc The Hebrew text has here, “and his upper room [by] which he was going up to the house of the Lord.” But עֲלִיָּתוֹ (ʿaliyyato, “his upper room”) should be emended to עֹלָתוֹ, (ʿolato, “his burnt sacrifice[s]”). See the parallel account in 1 Kgs 10:5.
- 2 Chronicles 9:4 tn Or “it took her breath away”; Heb “there was no breath still in her.”
- 2 Chronicles 9:5 tn Heb “about your words [or perhaps, “deeds”] and your wisdom.”
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