¹⁴ Solomon built up a huge force of chariots and horses.^[a] He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He stationed some of them in the chariot cities and some near him in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.^{[b] 16} Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt^[c] and from Cilicia^[d]; the king’s traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price. ¹⁷ At that time chariots from Egypt could be purchased for 600 pieces of silver,^[e] and horses for 150 pieces of silver.^[f] They were then exported to the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.