1 Kings 10:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

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  • Deut 17:17 : 17 And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.
  • 2 Chr 1:15-17 : 15 And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number. 16 And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt; the king's traders got them from Kue at a price. 17 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.
  • 2 Chr 9:27 : 27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.
  • Job 22:24-25 : 24 And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys; 25 Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;

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  • 2 Chr 9:27-28
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    27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.

    28 They got horses for Solomon from Egypt and from every land.

  • 2 Chr 1:14-17
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    94%

    14 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

    15 And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.

    16 And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt; the king's traders got them from Kue at a price.

    17 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

  • 1 Kgs 10:28-29
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    28 And Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders got them at a price from Kue.

    29 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

  • 1 Kgs 10:25-26
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    25 And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by year.

    26 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

  • Song 3:9-10
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    76%

    9 King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.

    10 He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.

  • 1 Chr 22:4
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    4 And cedar-trees without number, for the Zidonians and the men of Tyre came with a great amount of cedar-trees for David.

  • 1 Kgs 10:10-13
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    10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never again was such a wealth of spices seen as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.

    11 And the sea-force of Hiram, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with much sandal-wood and jewels.

    12 And from the sandal-wood the king made pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody: never has such sandal-wood been seen to this day.

    13 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what he gave her freely from the impulse of his heart. So she went back to her country, she and her servants.

  • 2 Chr 9:9-11
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    9 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never had such spices been seen as the queen of Sheba gave to Solomon.

    10 And the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with sandal-wood and jewels.

    11 And with the sandal-wood the king made steps for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody; never before had such been seen in the land of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 10:21-23
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    21 And all King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold; not one was of silver, for no one gave a thought to silver in the days of King Solomon.

    22 For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and monkeys and peacocks.

    23 And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.

  • 1 Kgs 5:10
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    10 So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;

  • 2 Chr 9:25
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    25 Solomon had four thousand buildings for his horses and his war-carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 9:11
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    11 (Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

  • 2 Chr 2:16
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    16 And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 9:14
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    14 And in addition to what he got from traders of different sorts, all the kings of Arabia and the rulers of the country gave gold and silver to Solomon.

  • 2 Chr 9:20
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    20 All King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold: no one gave a thought to silver in the days of Solomon.

  • 1 Kgs 10:17
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    17 And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.

  • 1 Kgs 10:15
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    15 In addition to what came to him from the business of the traders, and from all the kings of the Arabians, and from the rulers of the country.

  • 2 Chr 32:27
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    27 And Hezekiah had very great wealth and honour; and he made himself store-houses for his gold and silver and jewels and spices, and for body-covers and all sorts of beautiful vessels.

  • 2 Chr 8:6
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    6 And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 9:19
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    19 And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 7:11-12
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    71%

    11 Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

    12 The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

  • Song 8:11
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    11 Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.

  • Ps 80:10
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    10 The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

  • 2 Chr 2:8-10
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    8 And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your servants are expert wood-cutters in Lebanon; and my servants will be with yours,

    9 To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

    10 And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

  • 1 Kgs 4:26
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    26 And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.

  • 1 Kgs 5:6
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    6 So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.

  • 1 Kgs 7:7
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    7 Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

  • 2 Chr 30:26
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    26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for nothing like this had been seen in Jerusalem from the time of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

  • Ps 104:16
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    16 The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

  • 1 Kgs 7:2
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    2 And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

  • Ezek 31:7
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    7 So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
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    15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • 2 Chr 27:4
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    4 In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands.