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1 Kings 10:24-26
New English Translation
1 Kings 10:24-26
New English Translation
24 Everyone[a] in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.[b] 25 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.[c]
26 Solomon accumulated[d] chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.[e]
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- 1 Kings 10:24 tc The Old Greek translation and Syriac Peshitta have “all the kings of the earth.” See 2 Chr 9:23.
- 1 Kings 10:24 tn Heb “and all the earth was seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”
- 1 Kings 10:25 tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”
- 1 Kings 10:26 tn Or “gathered.”
- 1 Kings 10:26 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”
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