2 Chronicles 9:9

Spices. — B’sâmîm, from which come our words balsam and balm.

Great abundance. — See Note on 2 Chronicles 9:1. Here lârôb is substituted for the ancient harbçh.

Neither was there any such spice. — Or, there had not been such spicery, i.e., in Jerusalem. A defect in the chronicler’s MS. authority probably occasioned this deviation from the phrase which we find in the older text, “There came no more such abundance of spicery” (1 Kings 10:10).