2 Chronicles 1:16

16 The king's agents controlled the export of horses from Musri ^[a] and Cilicia, ^{[b] 1}

2 Chronicles 1:16 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 1:16

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 1:13)

2 Chronicles 1:16 In-Context

14 He 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.

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

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

17 and the export of chariots from Egypt. They supplied the Hittite and Syrian kings with horses and chariots, selling chariots for 600 pieces of silver each and horses for 150 each.

Cross References

• 1. 1.16Deuteronomy 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.]