²⁶ Solomon had four^[a] thousand stalls for chariot horses,^(A) and twelve thousand horses.^[b]

²⁶ Solomon accumulated chariots and horses;^(A) he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,^[a] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. ²⁷ The king made silver as common^(B) in Jerusalem as stones,^(C) and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig^(D) trees in the foothills. ²⁸ Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue^[b]—the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price. ²⁹ They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty.^[c] They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites^(E) and of the Arameans.