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2 Chronicles 1:15
2 Chronicles 1:15 is verse 15 of 2 Chronicles chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
Hebrew Shephelah or lowlands; that is, the western foothills of Judea
King James Version
And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
World English Bible
The king made silver and gold to be as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars to be as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
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2 Chronicles 1:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.
14 Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
15 The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
16 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
17 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.
2 Chronicles 1:12therefore wisdom and knowledge have been granted to you. And I will also give you riches and wealth and honor unlike anything given to the kings before you or after you.”
2 Chronicles 9:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
1 Kings 10:28Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
1 Kings 10:29A 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.
Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
Job 22:25then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
Isaiah 60:17Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.
Isaiah 9:10“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
Amos 7:14“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.