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26 (A)Solomon built up a force of fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand cavalry horses. Some of them he kept in Jerusalem and the rest he stationed in various other cities. 27 (B)During his reign silver was as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar was as plentiful as ordinary sycamore in the foothills of Judah. 28 (C)The king's agents controlled the export of horses from Musri[a] and Cilicia,[b]

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  1. 1 Kings 10:28 Probable text Musri; Hebrew Egypt.
  2. 1 Kings 10:28 Two ancient countries in what is now southeast Turkey which were centers of horse breeding in Solomon's time.

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