1 Kings 10:26-28

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²⁶Now Solomon collected chariots and horsemen; he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, which he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. ²⁷The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as plentiful as the ^[a]sycamore trees that are in the lowland. ²⁸Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from ^[b]Kue, and the king’s merchants acquired them from Kue, for a price.^(A)

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Footnotes

1 Kings 10:27 This tree, ficus sycomorus, is native to Egypt and Asia Minor and produces an edible fruit similar but inferior to the common fig.
1 Kings 10:28 This was an area which, in NT times, was called Cilicia, the home province of the apostle Paul.