2 Chronicles 1:15
Good News Translation
During his reign silver and gold became as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar was as plentiful as ordinary sycamore in the foothills of Judah.

New Revised Standard Version
The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.

Contemporary English Version
While Solomon was king of Israel, there was silver and gold everywhere in Jerusalem, and cedar was as common as ordinary sycamore trees in the foothills.

New American Bible
The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as numerous as the sycamores of the Shephelah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees as sycamores, which grow in the plains in great multitude.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees as sycamores, which grow in the plains in great multitude.

2 Chronicles 1:12 Wisdom and knowledge are granted to thee: and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and glory, so that none of the kings before thee, nor after thee, shall be like thee.

2 Chronicles 9:27 And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.

1 Kings 10:27 And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.

Job 22:24,25 He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold. . . .

Isaiah 60:17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver: and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make thy visitation peace, and thy overseers justice.

made [heb] gave

2 Chronicles 9:27 And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.

Isaiah 9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.

Amos 7:14 But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.

Context
Solomon's Riches
14And he gathered to himself chariots and horsemen, and he had a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he placed them in the cities of the chariots, and with the king in Jerusalem. 15And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees as sycamores, which grow in the plains in great multitude.16And there were horses brought him from Egypt, and from Coa by the king's merchants, who went, and bought at a price,…
Cross References
Luke 19:4
And running before, he climbed up into a sycamore tree, that he might see him: for he was to pass that way.

Deuteronomy 17:17
He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold.

1 Kings 10:27
And he made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as common as sycamores which grow in the plains.

1 Chronicles 27:28
And over the oliveyards and the fig groves, which were in the plains, was Balanam a Gederite: and over the oil cellars, Joas.

2 Chronicles 9:27
And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.

2 Chronicles 1:14
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