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1 Kings 10:27

JerusalemShephelah
Money and wealth

25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.

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.

28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

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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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