9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses 3 and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. 4 9:26 He ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River 5 to the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt. 9:27 The king made silver as plentiful 6 in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was 7 as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands 8 . 9:28 Solomon acquired horses from Egypt and from all the lands.
9:29 The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded 9 in the Annals of Nathan the Prophet, the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and the Vision of Iddo the Seer pertaining to Jeroboam son of Nebat. 9:30 Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem 10 for forty years. 9:31 Then Solomon passed away 11 and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.
1 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.”
2 tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”
3 tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”
4 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.”
9 tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Solomon, the former and the latter, are they not written?”
10 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
11 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”