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Clementine Latin Vulgate

1 Paralipomenon 10:15

Videntes igitur Syri quoniam corruissent coram Israël, congregati sunt pariter.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Duty (Tax);   King;   Merchant;   Solomon;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Merchants;   Trading;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Ishmaelites, the;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sabeans;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Arabia;   King;   Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Israel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Arabia;   Governor;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Commerce;   Phoenice;   Solomon;   Taxes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arabia;   King, Kingship;   Spices;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chapman;   Government;   Israel;   Merchantman;   Sheba, Queen of;   Solomon;   Trade and Commerce;   Tribute, Toll, Taxing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Arabia ;   Arabians ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Arabia;   Hiram;   Tyre;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Governor;   Taxes;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chapman;   Commerce;   Governor;   India;   King;   Mingled People (Mixed Multitude);   Solomon;   Trade;   Traffic;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Arabia;  

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
excepto eo quod afferebant viri qui super vectigalia erant, et negotiatores, universique scruta vendentes, et omnes reges Arabiæ, ducesque terræ.
Nova Vulgata (1979)
praeter id, quod proveniebat ex tributis subiectorum et commercio negotiatorum et omnium regum Arabiae et ducum terrae.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all the kings: 1 Chronicles 9:24, 2 Chronicles 9:13, 2 Chronicles 9:14, Psalms 72:10, Isaiah 21:13, Galatians 4:25

governors: or, captains

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:34 - traffic Genesis 43:11 - spices 2 Kings 20:13 - precious things Isaiah 39:2 - precious things Jeremiah 25:24 - Arabia Ezekiel 27:21 - Arabia Acts 2:11 - Arabians Revelation 18:13 - cinnamon

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Besides that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffic of the spice merchants,.... What they paid him as a duty or custom for the importation of their goods:

and of all the kings of Arabia; who were subject to him, and paid him a yearly tribute, or at least made presents, see 1 Kings 4:21

and of the governors of the country; who were viceroys or deputy governors of countries conquered by his father, and who collected tribute from the people, and paid it to him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is no mention in the original of “spice merchants.†Two classes of traders are spoken of; but both expressions are general.

Kings of Arabia - Rather, “kings of the mingled people†(compare Jeremiah 25:24). These were probably tribes half Jewish, half Arabian, on the borders of the western desert. They are regarded as Arabs by the author of Chronicles (marginal reference).

Governors - The word used here is thought to be of Aryan origin. It appears to have been a title given by the Persians to petty governors, inferior to the great satraps of provinces. We find it borne by, among others, Tatnai Ezra 5:6, Zerubbabel Haggai 1:1, and Nehemiah Nehemiah 5:14. It can scarcely have been in use among the Jews so early as Solomon, and we must therefore suppose it to have been substituted by the writer of Kings for some corresponding Semitic title. The empire of Solomon was not a state governed from a single center by an organisation of satrapies or provinces (1 Kings 4:21 note). But exceptionally, in some parts of the empire, the kings had been superseded by “governors†(compare 1 Kings 20:24).


 
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