THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Chronicles 1:17 in context
2 Chronicles 1:14–17
14
Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
15
The king made silver and gold to be as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
16
The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue. The king’s merchants purchased them from Kue.
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- The pieces of silver were probably shekels, so 600 pieces would be about 13.2 pounds or 6 kilograms of silver, and 150 would be about 3.3 pounds or 1.5 kilograms of silver.
- or, Aramean
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