2 Chronicles 1:15-17

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¹⁵The king made silver and gold as plentiful and common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as plentiful as the ^[a]sycamore-fig trees in the lowland. ¹⁶Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from ^[b]Kue. The king’s merchants purchased them [in large numbers] from Kue ^[c]at a price. ¹⁷And they imported chariots from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver apiece, and horses for 150 apiece; and in the same way they exported horses to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Arameans (Syrians).

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Footnotes

2 Chronicles 1:15 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 1:16 This was an area which, in NT times, was called Cilicia, the home province of the apostle Paul.
2 Chronicles 1:16 Solomon’s actions were in violation of the commandments given through Moses in Deut 17:16, 17 (see also 1 Kin 4:26; 10:26; 11:1-4).