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24 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.[a]

25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses[b] and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and also with him in Jerusalem.[c] 26 He ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River[d] to the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 9:24 tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 9:25 tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 9:25 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 9:26 tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew the Euphrates River was typically referred to simply as “the River.”