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21 All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were solid gold, as were all the utensils in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. They were not made of silver, for silver was considered worthless in Solomon’s day!

22 The king had a fleet of trading ships of Tarshish that sailed with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the ships returned, loaded with gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.[a]

23 So King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king on earth. 24 People from every nation came to consult him and to hear the wisdom God had given him. 25 Year after year everyone who visited brought him gifts of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.

26 Solomon built up a huge force of chariots and horses.[b] He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He stationed some of them in the chariot cities and some near him in Jerusalem. 27 The king made silver 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.[c] 28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt[d] and from Cilicia[e]; the king’s traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price. 29 At that time chariots from Egypt could be purchased for 600 pieces of silver,[f] and horses for 150 pieces of silver.[g] They were then exported to the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:22 Or and baboons.
  2. 10:26 Or charioteers; also in 10:26b.
  3. 10:27 Hebrew the Shephelah.
  4. 10:28a Possibly Muzur, a district near Cilicia; also in 10:29.
  5. 10:28b Hebrew Kue, probably another name for Cilicia.
  6. 10:29a Hebrew 600 [shekels] of silver, about 15 pounds or 6.8 kilograms in weight.
  7. 10:29b Hebrew 150 [shekels], about 3.8 pounds or 1.7 kilograms in weight.

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