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1 Kings 10:27

JerusalemShephelah
Money and wealth

25 Year after year, each visitor would bring his tribute: articles of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.

26 Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.

29 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.

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BSB
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
KJV
And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
WEB
The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
ASV
And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
DARBY
And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he as the sycamores that are in the lowland for abundance.
BLB
And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees he made as abundant as the sycamores that [are] in the Shephelah.
ÅB
Kongen gjorde sølvet i Jerusalem like så almindelig som stein, og sedertre like så almindelig som morbærtrærne i lavlandet.
OTB
Kongen gjorde sølv like vanlig i Jerusalem som steiner, og han gjorde sedrer like rikelige som morbærtrær i lavlandet.
B1930
Kongen gjorde sølvet i Jerusalem like så almindelig som sten, og sedertre like så almindelig som morbærtrærne i lavlandet.

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