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1 Kings 10:29

1 Kings 10:29 is verse 29 of 1 Kings chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.

600 shekels is approximately 15.1 pounds or 6.8 kilograms of silver.

150 shekels is approximately 3.8 pounds or 1.7 kilograms of silver.

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King James Version

And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

World English Bible

A chariot was imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Syria.

A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.

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1 Kings 10:27–29 · Berean Standard Bible

27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.

28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.

29 A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Joshua 1:4

Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.

2 Kings 7:6

For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”

Hosea 12:10

I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.

Malachi 1:1

This is the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:

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