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2 Chronicles 9:27

JerusalemShephelah

25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

26 He reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.

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 from all the lands.

29 As for the rest of the acts of Solomon, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Records of Nathan the Prophet, in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the Visions of Iddo the Seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

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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 in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
WEB
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant 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 the 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 som steiner i Jerusalem, og han gjorde sedertre like rikelig 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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Cross references

  • 2 Chronicles 1:15–17

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

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  • 2 Chronicles 9:20

    All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

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  • Job 22:24–25

    and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

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  • 1 Chronicles 27:28

    Baal-hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the foothills. Joash was in charge of the stores of olive oil.

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  • Isaiah 9:10

    “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

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  • 1 Kings 10:27–29

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

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  • Luke 19:4

    So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.

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  • Amos 7:14

    “I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.

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