Solomon’s Wealth

¹⁴ Solomon acquired chariots and horsemen; he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the cities [suited for the use] of chariots and with the king at Jerusalem. ¹⁵ The 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. ¹⁶ Solomon’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. ¹⁷ And 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).