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\u201c<\/b>Solomon brought up Pharaoh\u2019s daughter from the City of David to the palace that he had built for her, for he said, \u201cNo wife of mine shall dwell in a palace of King David of Israel, for [the area] is sacred since the Ark of the LORD has entered it\u201d (verse 11).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One of Solomon\u2019s early missteps was marrying Pharaoh's daughter. In I Kings 3:1 we learn that Solomon entered into a treaty with Pharoah and married his daughter as part of the pact. Political marriages between monarchs were frequent in ancient (and even modern) times. But this fact is conspicuously absent from Chronicles. That is our first hint that this was not looked at as a smart move. Usually if something innocuous is missing from Chronicles that appears in Kings, it is something that the chronicler wanted to remove from the official record. The question is, then, why include this verse? It must have been that his marriage to the daughter of Pharaoh was not something that could have been completely swept under the rug. He even built for her her own palace!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The chronicler was then faced with a dilemma. So, the fact is added, but with a little extra context. In I Kings 9, the removal of the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David is stated as almost as a throwaway fact: \u201cAs soon as Pharaoh\u2019s daughter went up from the City of David to the palace that he had built for her, he built the Millo\u201d (I Kings 9:24). In II Chronicles 8, however, we have the added declaration: \u201cNo wife of mine shall dwell in a palace of King David of Israel, for [the area] is sacred since the Ark of the LORD has entered it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Solomon now seems like a righteous man when it comes to the daughter of Pharaoh. He wishes to remove her from the city of David because the Ark was there. It also shows that he probably realized that this was not the best marriage situation. By adding this one additional line, the Chronicler is able to balance mentioning the unignorable fact of Solomon\u2019s marriage to the daughter of Pharaoh while also trying to spin it to seem favorable to the King.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter stipulates: \u201cThese were King Solomon\u2019s prefects\u2014250 foremen over the people\u201d (10), whereas the corresponding verse in 1 Kings reads: \u201cThese were the prefects that were in charge of Solomon\u2019s works and were foremen over the people engaged in the work, who numbered 550\u201d (9:23). The exegetical attempts to reconcile this discrepancy of 300 foremen are reminiscent of some of those we witnessed in several of our comments on 1 Chronicles (cf. Chapters 18, 19, and 24).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here, for example, is Rashi\u2019s commentary to 1 Kings 9:23:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Three hundred of them were proselytes in charge of 70,000 who bore burdens, 80,000 hewers in the mountains (1 Kings 5:29), and 3,300 who controlled the people who did the work, as stated above, \"Apart from Solomon\u2019s 3,300 officials\" (1 Kings 5:30). But in Chronicles it states, \"Solomon took a census of all the aliens (<\/span>gerim<\/span><\/em>) who were in the land of Israel, besides the census taken by his father David, and they were found to be 153,600<\/span>\" <\/span>(2 Chr. 2:16). These three hundred that are missing [in Kings], he counted there, for they were appointed over all of them. The two hundred fifty remaining were Israelites appointed over the other laborers. In Chronicles they were counted separately, [as it states,] \"These were King Solomon\u2019s prefects\u2014250 foremen over the people,\" (2 Chr. 8:10), i.e., the laborers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak agreed with Rashi, adding:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Chronicles, he did not count alien prefects, only Jewish ones, the alien prefects being subsumed in the count of all the aliens.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ralbag proposed an alternative accounting:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Possibly, in the construction of the Temple there were only 300 [foremen], while in the other construction that was dispersed in several places there was a need to add an additional 250 supervisors over the foremen, and he did so by taking them from among the \u201caliens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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8:2 \u201cAnd the towns that Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon had rebuilt and settled Israelites there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Kings, Solomon gives twenty towns to Huram (called Hiram there), evidently in payment for the cedarwood and the skilled laborers. The Chronicler may have found it distasteful to represent Solomon giving away real estate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. Comp. lit.<\/em> The parallel to this chapter can be found in 1 Kings 9. It\u2019s worth comparing the two.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The order is the message.<\/em> The history of Solomon\u2019s kingdom as told here relates that the beginning of his reign he was devoted to building the Temple and only afterwards turned to more secular affairs, and territorial expansion. This order indicates what was important to Solomon, and also creates a cause and effect relationship between Solomon\u2019s investment in his sacred duties, and his success in political affairs as a reward.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Who gave to whom?<\/em> Verse 2 mentions the \u201cthe cities that Huram had given to Solomon,\u201d whereas, in the parallel in 1 Kings, we read: \u201cKing Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the region of Galilee (9:11). How do we explain the discrepancy? Is the Chronicler correcting history and clearing Solomon of the charge of ceding territory? Or was there possibly a two-sided exchange? Or something else?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. A palace for the daughter of Pharaoh<\/em>. Solomon builds a palace for Pharaoh\u2019s daughter near other royal structures in the new northern part of the city. But, is her move there from the City of David an upgrade of her status, or damage control? It depends on who you ask: the answer of Chronicles is here in verse 11 (compare to that found in 1 Kings 9:24).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The ideal king<\/em>. What makes a good king? Here can be found attributes from the area of civil administration and political relations that should be added to the list. <\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"II Chronicles 8","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder ","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"II Chronicles","chapter":"8","chapter_main_number":"901","date":"20290211","wall_id":"901"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/99927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}