Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

He made cities for himself and acquired flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great wealth.

King James Version

Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.

Holman Bible

He made cities for himself, and he acquired herds of sheep and cattle in abundance, for God gave him abundant possessions.

International Standard Version

He also built cities for himself and stored up flocks and herds in abundance, because God had given him great riches.

A Conservative Version

Moreover he provided for him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance. For God had given him very much substance.

American Standard Version

Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.

Amplified

Moreover, he made cities for himself and acquired an abundance of flocks and herds, for God gave him very many possessions.

Bible in Basic English

And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.

Darby Translation

And he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God gave him very much substance.

Julia Smith Translation

And he made cities to him and possession of flocks and oxen for abundance: for God gave to him exceeding much substance.

King James 2000

Moreover he provided himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him very great possessions.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And he made cities for himself, and livestock of sheep and abundant cattle, for God had given to him very abundant possessions.

Modern King James verseion

And he provided himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds, in abundance. For God had given him very many things.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And he made him towns because he had cattle of sheep and oxen great abundance. For God had given him substance exceeding much.

NET Bible

He built royal cities and owned a large number of sheep and cattle, for God gave him a huge amount of possessions.

New Heart English Bible

Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.

The Emphasized Bible

and, cities, made he for himself, and possessions of flocks and herds, in abundance, - for God had given him exceeding great wealth.

Webster

Moreover, he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance in great abundance.

World English Bible

Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.

Youngs Literal Translation

and cities he hath made for himself, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance, for God hath given to him very much substance.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

מקנה 
Miqneh 
Usage: 76

of flocks
צאון צאןo 
Tso'n 
Usage: 274

and herds
בּקר 
Baqar 
Usage: 183

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

רכשׁ רכוּשׁ 
R@kuwsh 
Usage: 28

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Hezekiah's Wealth And Works

28 storehouses also for the increase of grain and wine and oil and stalls for all manner of beasts and places for cattle. 29 He made cities for himself and acquired flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great wealth. 30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah was prospered in all that he did.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:12

The riches and the glory are before thee, and thou dost reign over all, and in thy hand is power and might and in thy hand the greatness and the strength of all things.

Genesis 13:2-6

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Deuteronomy 8:18

But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God, for it is he that gives thee the power to get wealth that he may confirm his covenant which he swore unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

1 Samuel 2:7

The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and lifts up.

1 Chronicles 27:29-31

and over the cows that fed in Sharon was Shitrai, the Sharonite; and over the cows that were in the valleys was Shaphat, the son of Adlai;

2 Chronicles 25:9

Then Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.

2 Chronicles 26:10

He also built towers in the desert and dug many wells, for he had much livestock, both in the low country and in the plains, husbandmen also and vine dressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved agriculture.

Job 1:3

His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she asses, and a very great store of servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

Job 1:9

Then Satan answered the LORD and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?

Job 42:12

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels and a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she asses.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the LORD is that which makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

1 Timothy 6:17-18

Charge those that are rich in this world, that they not be highminded, not placing their hope in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;

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