1 Kings 10:24-28

24 and the whole world wanted to come and listen to the wisdom that God had given him.

25 Everyone who came brought him a gift - articles of silver and gold, robes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. This continued year after year.

26 Solomon built up a force of fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand cavalry horses. Some of them he kept in Jerusalem and the rest he stationed in various other cities. ¹

27 During his reign silver was as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar was as plentiful as ordinary sycamore in the foothills of Judah. ²

28 The king's agents controlled the export of horses from Musri and Cilicia, ³

1 Kings 10:24-28 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 10

This chapter contains an account of the queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon to her great satisfaction, 1Ki 10:1-13, of Solomon's merchandise and riches, and the magnificence of his court, 1Ki 10:14-23, of the rich presents sent to him, and of the purchase of chariots and horses, and other things, he made, 1Ki 10:24-29.

Cross References

• 1. 10.26 1 Kings 4.26.
• 2. 10.27Deuteronomy 17.17.
• 3. 10.28Deuteronomy 17.16.

Footnotes

• [a]. [Probable text] Musri; [Hebrew] Egypt.
• [b]. musri and cilicia: [Two ancient countries in what is now southeast Turkey which were centers of horse breeding in Solomon's time.]