2 Chronicles 9:27
Good News Translation
During his reign silver was 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 as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

the king

2 Chronicles 9:20 And all the vessels of the king's table were of gold, and the vessels of the house of the forest of Libanus were of the purest gold. For no account was made of silver in those days.

2 Chronicles 1:15-17 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. . . .

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. . . .

made [heb] gave

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.

Psalm 78:47 And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.

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.

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.

Context
Solomon's Wealth and Splendor
26And he exercised authority over all the kings from the river Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt. 27And he made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars as common as the sycamores, which grow in the plains.28And horses were brought to him out of Egypt, and out of all countries.…
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.

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.

2 Chronicles 1:15
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 9:26
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