2 Chronicles 9:22-28

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.

[9:22]  ¹ tn Heb “King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth with respect to wealth and wisdom.”

[9:23]  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.”

[9:24]  ³ tn Heb “and they were bringing each one his gift, items of silver…and mules, the matter of a year in a year.”

[9:25]  ⁴ tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”

[9:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”

[9:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew the Euphrates River was typically referred to simply as “the River.”

[9:27]  ⁶ tn The words “as plentiful” are supplied for clarification.

[9:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “he made cedar.”

[9:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah.”