9:22 King Solomon was wealthier and wiser than any of the kings of the earth. 1 9:23 All the kings of the earth wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom. 2 9:24 Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules. 3
9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses 4 and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. 5 9:26 He ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River 6 to the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt. 9:27 The king made silver as plentiful 7 in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was 8 as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands 9 . 9:28 Solomon acquired horses from Egypt and from all the lands.
1 tn Heb “King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth with respect to wealth and wisdom.”
2 tn Heb “and all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had placed in his heart.”
3 tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”
4 tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”
5 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”
5 tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew the Euphrates River was typically referred to simply as “the River.”
6 tn The words “as plentiful” are supplied for clarification.
7 tn Heb “he made cedar.”
8 tn Heb “as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah.”