2 Chronicles Chiasm (Dillard)

2 Chronicles

1 Kings

A. Solomon’s wealth and wisdom (1:1-17)

1:1 Solomon established himself in his kingdom

2:36-46 Shimei executed; Solomon’s kingdom established

3:1-3 Solomon married Pharaoh’s daughter; Solomon and people worship at the high places

1:3a Solomon and whole assembly went to the high place of Gibeon…

3:4a King alone went to high place of Gibeon

Bronze altar made by Bezalel (Exod 31:2-11) was also at Gibeon and on it Solomon sacrificed 1000 burnt offerings

3:4b where Solomon used to sacrifice 1000 burnt offerings.

[In Chronicles Jerusalem not yet a fit place for sacrifice]

3:5-15 Similar but in a dream and adds: If you will walk in my ways, I will lengthen your life. Solomon awoke from his dream. He went to Jerusalem and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before ark in Jerusalem. Provided a feast for all his servants.

3:16-28 Solomon’s wisdom: he decided which prostitute would get the live baby

1:13b Solomon ruled over Israel

4:1 Similar

4:2-20 Solomon’s wisdom; 12 administrative districts

5:1-14 [4:21-34] Solomon’s massive daily provisions for his court and his famed wisdom about nature. On 5:1 [4:21], see 2 Chr 9:26; on 5:6 [4:26] see 2 Chr 9:25.

(Trade in horses [1:14-17])

1:14-17 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. Plentiful silver, gold, and cedar wood. Horse trading (v. 16 for Solomon from Egypt; 9:28 from Egypt for Solomon) Wealth useful for building temple and it fulfills promise made in v. 12 (I will also give you riches).

10:26-29 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. Plentiful silver, (gold LXX), and cedar wood. Horse trading.

(Yahweh’s love for Israel [2:10 {2:11}])

v. 15 (16) We will send timber to Joppa and you can take it to Jerusalem.

5:23-26 [5:9-12] Hiram sends timber from Lebanon. Solomon sends annual gifts to Hiram (5:25 [11]) and the two enact a treaty.

C. Temple construction/gentile labor (2:16-5:1 [2:17-5:1])

2:16-17 [17-18] 153,600 aliens residing in Israel turned into 70,000 laborers, 80,000 stone cutters, and 3,600 overseers.

70,000 laborers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, plus 3,300 overseers.

3:1-4a Solomon built the temple on Mount Moriah (cf. Gen 22:2, 14), where Yahweh had appeared to David (1 Chr 21). Threshing floor of Ornan. Dimensions of the temple

Dimensions of the temple.

6:4-20a More details about temple building.

3:4b-5a Gold overlay and cypress lining.

6:20b-22 overlay with cedar and gold.

3:5b-9 More details and overlay

3:10-11 Two cherubim in Holy Place

6:23-24 Two cherubim

V. 14 veil closed off Most Holy Place.

6:25-38 more on Cherubim and more details about temple.

Palace took thirteen years to build. Solomon also made a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (v. 8).

3:15-17 Pillars in front of temple

7:15-22 Pillars in front of temple

4:1 altar of bronze

Accidentally lost in Kings by homoioarchton? (and he made…and he made)

4:2-5 Molten sea supported by twelve oxen

7:23-26 Molten sea

7:27-37 Ten water carts

4:6aa Ten lavers to wash in (tabernacle had one).

each laver contained 40 baths--one laver for each of the water carts.

4:6ab -9 Sea was for the priests to wash in. Ten lampstands and other furnishings

4:10-22 Various vessels for the temple. Secondary? Inner doors (v. 22) contradict idea that a curtain closed off the Most Holy Place (3:14)

7:39b-50 Similar.

1. a. summons (vv. 2-4), b. sacrifice (v. 6), c. music (vv. 12-13), d. glory cloud (vv. 13-14) (5:2-14)

Tent of meeting was also brought from Gibeon (v. 5; cf. 1 Chr 16:39; 2 Chr 1:3)

8:4 strange mention of tent of meeting

5:11b-13a Levitical musicians: "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever." Cf. 2 Chr 7:3

5:13b-14 Cloud and glory in temple (Exod 40:34-38)

810b-11Similar.

2’. Solomon speaks to God (6:12-42)

v. 10 I have succeeded my father David…and have built the house for the name of the LORD.

(vv. 12-13 absent at this point in LXX; appear after v. 53)

6:13 Solomon knelt and spread out his hands in prayer

Homoioteleuton in Kings MT?

v. 16 walk in my law

v. 25 walk before me

8:50ab -51 Grant your people compassion before their captors. Reference to Exodus--your people…whom you brought out of Egypt.

6:40 Let your eyes and ears be open to prayer from this place.

8:52 Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and Israel

8:53 Reference to Moses your servant and Exodus. LXX places 8:12-13 here!

6:41-42 Hope built on a word from David. Remember your steadfast love for your servant David.

Ps 132:8-10, and Ps 132:1 Remember in David’s favor all the hardships he endured.

1’. d’. glory cloud (vv. 1-3); c’. music (v. 6); b’. sacrifice (vv. 4-5, 7); a.’ dismissal (v. 10) (7:1-10)

7:1a Solomon ended his prayer

8:54a Similar

7:1b-3a Fire came down from heaven (Lev 9:23-24; 1 Chr 21:26) and glory of Yahweh filled the house. Priests unable to enter house (Exod 40:35).

People said a doxology: "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever." Cf. 2 Chr 5:11-13.

Ps 136:1

8:54b-61 Solomon blesses Israel

7:4-5 Solomon sacrificed 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep (cf. large number of sacrifices in the time of Hezekiah [29:32-36] and Josiah [35:7-9]).

8:62-63 Similar.

7:6 Priests and Levites. Priestly trumpeters

All Israel held a festival for 7 days

All Israel held a festival for 14 days (LXX 7 days).

7:9-10 Solemn assembly on 8^th day (dedication of altar 7 days and Tabernacles 7 days, Lev 3:34-36, 39-43); people sent home on 23^rd day. Lord’s goodness to David and Solomon and Israel.

8:66 On 8^th day people sent home. Lord’s goodness to David and Israel.

2". God speaks to Solomon (7:12-18)

7:11-12ba Solomon finished temple and palace. Yahweh appeared and said he has heard Solomon’s prayer.

v. 2 Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, just as he had appeared at Gibeon.

7:12bb -15 Yahweh: I have chosen this place as a house of sacrifice. If people turn to me during natural calamities, I will hear and forgive and heal the land.

a. Exodus (7:22)

7:16-22 If you, Solomon, walk before me, I will establish your throne, as I made a covenant with your father David. Vv. 19-22 show the consequences of idolatry.

C’. Other construction/gentile labor (8:1-16)

8:1-2 After 20 years Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram had given to him

9:10-13 After 20 years Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities, but Hiram was displeased with them. They are called the land of Cabul.

V. 16 Pharaoh had burned Gezer and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

8:3-5 Solomon builds in several cities—Tadmor (140 miles northeast of Damascus), Upper Beth-horon, Lower Beth-horon.

9:17-18 Solomon builds Gezer and other cities, including Tamar.

(Gentile labor [8:7-10])

8:6-10 Other building. Conscripted pre Israelite inhabitants of land for forced labor. No slaves from Israel. 250 chief officers

9:19-23. Similar 550 chief officers

8:11a Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter from city of David.

9:24 (cf. 3:1; 7:8; 9:16; 11:1) Similar. The daughter of Pharaoh went up to her house.

8:11b The places to which the ark has come are holy.

8:12 Solomon does sacrifices

9:25 Similar.

(Completion of temple [8:16])

8:13-16 Offerings done in conformity with law (Num 28-29); Solomon appointed Levites just like David. Whole work on temple finished

B’. Recognition by gentiles/dealings with Hiram (8:17-9:12)

8:17-18 Maritime adventures with sailors sent by Huram. 450 talents of gold to Solomon.

9:26-28 Similar, but only 420 talents of gold.

(Yahweh’s love for Israel [9:8])

9:1-12 Visit of queen of Sheba (1400 miles from Jerusalem). She said: Yahweh has set you on his throne, v. 8.

Yahweh has set you on the throne of Israel, v. 9.

(Trade in horses [9:25-28])

v. 25 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots and 12,000 horses

(cf. 1 Kgs 5:6 [4:26] 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots and 12,000 horsemen)

9:26 Solomon ruled from Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, up to the border of Egypt

Kings LXX = same position as in Chronicles.

v. 28 horses imported from Egypt for Solomon (cf. 1:16) and from all lands (abridged because of repetition of 1:14-17?)

v. 28 horses imported from Egypt and Kue

10:29. Chariots cost 600 shekels and a horse 150 shekels. They were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and Kings of Aram.

27-40 Ahijah the prophet promises Jeroboam 10 tribes, but promises Rehoboam 1 tribe for the sake of David. Jeroboam fled to Egypt until the death of Solomon.

9:29-31 Reference to history of prophet Nathan (1 Chr 17), prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite (1 Kgs 11-15), and visions of the seer Iddo (2 Chr 12:15; 13:22). Solomon reigned 40 years. Rehoboam became king in his place.

Solomon reigned 40 years

11:17 They made Rehoboam son of Solomon secure. They walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.