Over the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephelah was Baal-hanan the Gederite. Over the stores of oil was Joash.
2 Chronicles 9:27 - New Revised Standard Version The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The king made silver in Jerusalem as common as stones, and cedar wood as plentiful as sycamore trees in the lowlands. American Standard Version (1901) And 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. Common English Bible In Jerusalem, the king made silver as common as stones and cedar as common as sycamore trees that grow in the foothills. Catholic Public Domain Version And he brought forth so much silver that it was as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones. And cedar trees were as great in number as the sycamores that spring up in the plains. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains. |
Over the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephelah was Baal-hanan the Gederite. Over the stores of oil was Joash.
All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.
“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.