2 Chronicles 9:25-27

Amplified Bible

²⁵Now Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities or with the king at Jerusalem.^(A) ²⁶He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt. ²⁷The king made silver in Jerusalem as common as stones, and cedar wood as plentiful as the ^[a]sycamore-fig trees that are in the ^[b]lowland.

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Footnotes

2 Chronicles 9:27 This tree, ficus sycomorus, is native to Egypt and Asia Minor and produces an edible fruit similar but inferior to the common fig.
2 Chronicles 9:27 Heb shephelah.

2 Chronicles 9:25-27

New International Version

²⁵Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots,^(A) and twelve thousand horses,^[a] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. ²⁶He ruled^(B) over all the kings from the Euphrates River^(C) to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.^(D) ²⁷The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills.