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So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.
14
Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
15
The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
16
Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
17
A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.
Footnotes 1
[a].
Hebrew Shephelah or lowlands; that is, the western foothills of Judea
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