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2 Chronicles 9:25-27
New English Translation
2 Chronicles 9:25-27
New English Translation
25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses[a] and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and also with him in Jerusalem.[b] 26 He ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River[c] to the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt. 27 The king made silver as plentiful[d] in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was[e] as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the foothills.[f]
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- 2 Chronicles 9:25 tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”
- 2 Chronicles 9:25 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”
- 2 Chronicles 9:26 tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew the Euphrates River was typically referred to simply as “the River.”
- 2 Chronicles 9:27 tn The words “as plentiful” are supplied for clarification.
- 2 Chronicles 9:27 tn Heb “he made cedar.”
- 2 Chronicles 9:27 sn The foothills (שְׁפֵלָה, shephelah) are the region between the Judean hill country and the Mediterranean coastal plain.
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