2 Chronicles 1:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they fetched up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽ֠יַּעֲלוּ וַיּוֹצִ֨יאוּ מִמִּצְרַ֤יִם מֶרְכָּבָה֙ בְּשֵׁ֣שׁ מֵא֣וֹת כֶּ֔סֶף וְס֖וּס בַּחֲמִשִּׁ֣ים וּמֵאָ֑ה וְ֠כֵן לְכָל־מַלְכֵ֧י הַֽחִתִּ֛ים וּמַלְכֵ֥י אֲרָ֖ם בְּיָדָ֥ם יוֹצִֽיאוּ׃

Transliteration

And-wayyaʿălû and-wayyôṣîʾû from-Miṣrayim merkābâ in-six hundred kesep and-sûs in-fifty and-hundred and-thus for-all-malkê the-ḥittîm and-malkê ʾărām in-their-hand yôṣîʾû.

Grammar Details

*wayyaʿălû*: Qal waw-consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they brought up
*wayyôṣîʾû*: Hiphil waw-consecutive imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they brought out
*Miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
*merkābâ*: noun feminine singular - chariot
*kesep*: noun masculine singular - silver/shekels
*sûs*: noun masculine singular - horse
*malkê*: noun masculine plural construct - kings of
*ḥittîm*: proper noun, gentilics - Hittites
*ʾărām*: proper noun - Aram/Syria
*yôṣîʾû*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they exported

Word Meanings

*wayyaʿălû*: brought up/imported/acquired
*wayyôṣîʾû*: brought out/exported/imported
*merkābâ*: chariot/war vehicle
*kesep*: silver/shekels/money
*yôṣîʾû*: exported/brought out/supplied

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 10:29 : 29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the golden calves that were in Beth-el, and that were in Dan.

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1 Kgs 10:25-29
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25And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
26And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
27And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
28And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
29And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out [ by their means.]
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14And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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2 Chr 9:24-28
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83%
24And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
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1 Kgs 4:26
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26And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
2 Kgs 7:14
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2 Kgs 7:6
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2 Chr 12:3
74%
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Ezra 2:66-67
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1 Chr 19:6
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Gen 47:17
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1 Kgs 10:15-16
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2 Chr 9:21
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