⁶⁸ The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again.^(A) There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

¹⁰ Samuel told^(A) all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. ¹¹ He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take^(B) your sons and make them serve^(C) with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.^{(D) 12} Some he will assign to be commanders^(E) of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

²⁶ Solomon accumulated chariots and horses;^(A) he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,^[a] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. ²⁷ The king made silver as common^(B) in Jerusalem as stones,^(C) and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig^(D) trees in the foothills. ²⁸ Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue^[b]—the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price. ²⁹ They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty.^[c] They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites^(E) and of the Arameans.