2 Chronicles 9:24

24 Everyone who came brought gifts - artifacts of gold and silver, fashionable robes and gowns, the latest in weapons, exotic spices, horses, and mules - parades of visitors, year after year.

2 Chronicles 9:24 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 10:24

(See Gill on 1 Kings 10:25).

2 Chronicles 9:24 In-Context

22 King Solomon was richer and wiser than all the kings of the earth - he surpassed them all.
23 Kings came from all over the world to be with Solomon and get in on the wisdom God had given him.
24 Everyone who came brought gifts - artifacts of gold and silver, fashionable robes and gowns, the latest in weapons, exotic spices, horses, and mules - parades of visitors, year after year.
25 Solomon collected horses and chariots. He had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen in barracks in the chariot-cities and in Jerusalem.
26 He ruled over all the kings from the River Euphrates in the east, throughout the Philistine country, and as far west as the border of Egypt.
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