1 Raja-raja 10:27

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Raja membuat banyaknya perak di Yerusalem sama seperti batu, dan banyaknya pohon kayu aras sama seperti pohon ara yang tumbuh di Daerah Bukit.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Raja membuat banyaknya perak di Yerusalem sama seperti batu, dan banyaknya pohon kayu aras sama seperti pohon ara yang tumbuh di Daerah Bukit.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka oleh baginda diadakan bahwa di Yeruzalem perak itu disamakan dengan batu dan pohon kayu arazpun banyaknya seperti pohon beringin yang di tanah datar.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ The waight of golde that came to Solomon in one yere, was sixe hundred theescore and sixe talentes of golde, ¹⁵ Besydes that he had of marchauntes, and of the marchaundises of the spices, and of all the kinges of Arabia, & of the lordes of the countrey. ¹⁶ And king Solomon made two hundred targettes of beaten golde: sixe hundred sicles of golde went to a target. ¹⁷ And he made three hundred shieldes of beaten golde: three pounde of gold went to one shielde, and the king put them in the house of the wood of Libanon. ¹⁸ And the king made a great seate of iuorie, and couered it with the best golde. ¹⁹ And the seate had sixe steppes, and the toppe of the seate was rounde behinde, & there were pommelles on either syde on the place of the seate, and two lions stoode besyde the pommelles. ²⁰ And there stoode twelue lions on the steppes, sixe on a syde: There was none lyke worke seene in any kingdome. ²¹ And al king Solomons drinking vessels were of golde, and lykewyse all the vessels of the house of the wood of Libanon were of pure golde: And as for siluer, it was nothing worth in the dayes of Solomon: ²² For the kinges nauie of shippes went on the sea vnto Tharsis with the nauie of Hirams shippes: euen once in three yeres went the nauie to Tharsis, and brought golde and siluer, Elephantes teeth, apes, and pecockes. ²³ And so king Solomon exceeded al the kinges of the earth both in ryches and wysdome.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the king: 2 Chronicles 1:15-17, 2 Chronicles 9:27, Job 22:24, Job 22:25

made: Heb. gave

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 17:5 - he had riches Job 3:15 - who filled their houses Job 27:16 - heap up Isaiah 9:10 - bricks Zechariah 9:3 - heaped Luke 19:4 - a sycamore

Cross-References

Genesis 10:20
These are the children of Ham in their kinredes, in their tongues, countreys, and in their nations.

Genesis 10:28
Obal also, and Abimael, and Seba,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones,.... By the vast quantity he received from Tarshish; this is an hyperbolical expression:

and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are the vale for abundance; not by the growth of them, but by the importation of them from the dominion of Hiram; this is said in the same figurative way; of the sycamore trees, Rauwolff says g, they are what the Moors and Arabians calls "mumeitz"; which he describes to be as large and as high as white mulberry trees, and having almost the same leaves, but rounder, and their fruit not unlike our figs, only sweeter, and no little seeds within, and not so good; and are therefore not esteemed, and are commonly sold to the poorer sort, and that they grow in all fields and grounds; of which :-.

g Travels, par. 1. c. 4. p. 37.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Made silver as stones - This strong hyperbole marks in the most striking way the great wealth and prosperity of the capital during Solomon’s reign. The lavish expenditure which impoverished the provinces, and produced, or helped to produce, the general discontent that led to the outbreak under Jeroboam, enriched the metropolis, which must have profited greatly by the residence of the court, the constant influx of opulent strangers, and the periodical visits of all Israelites not hindered by some urgent reason at the great festivals.

The “sycomore-trees in the vale” (Shephelah) are mentioned also in 1 Chronicles 27:28. Like the olives and the vines, they were placed by David under a special overseer, on account of their value. The tree meant seems to be the sycomore proper, or “fig-mulberry,” which is still common in Palestine, and is highly esteemed both on account of its fruit and its timber.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 27. Made silver - as stones — He destroyed its value by making it so exceedingly plenty.

As the sycamore trees — He planted many cedars, and doubtless had much cedar wood imported; so that it became as common as the sycamore trees, which appear to have grown there in great abundance. This is considered to be a tree that partakes of the nature of the fig tree, and of the mulberry. Of the former it has the fruit, and of the latter the leaves; that is, the fruit had a considerable resemblance to the fig, and the leaf to that of the mulberry tree: hence its name sycamore, from the Greek συκον, a fig, and μορεα, a mulberry tree.