27 And the King [a]gave silver in Jerusalem as stones, and gave cedars as the wild fig trees that grow abundantly in the plain.

28 Also Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and fine linen: [b]the king’s merchants received the linen for a price.

29 There came up and went out of Egypt some chariot worth six hundred shekels of silver: that is, one horse, an hundred and fifty. And thus they brought horses to all the Kings of the Hittites and to the Kings of Aram by their [c]means.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 10:27 Or, he made silver as plenteous as stones.
  2. 1 Kings 10:28 Or, for the company of the King’s merchants did receive a number at a price.
  3. 1 Kings 10:29 Hebrew, hands.

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