2 Chronicles 1:16
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New International Version (©2011)
Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue --the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Cilicia; the king's traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s traders would buy them from Kue for a price.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders procured them from Kue for a price.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Solomon's horses came from Egypt and Kue. The king's traders would get them from Kue at the going price.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue; the king's procurement officials obtained them from Kue at great price.

NET Bible (©2006)
Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt and from Que; the king's traders purchased them from Que.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and Kue. The king's traders bought them from Kue for a fixed price.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and Kue: the king's merchants received them from Kue at a price.

American King James Version
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

American Standard Version
And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were horses brought him from Egypt, and from Coa by the king's merchants, who went, and bought at a price,

Darby Bible Translation
And the exportation of horses that Solomon had was from Egypt: a caravan of the king's merchants fetched a drove of horses, at a price.

English Revised Version
And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

World English Bible
The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt and from Kue; the king's merchants purchased them from Kue.

Young's Literal Translation
And the source of the horses that are to Solomon is from Egypt and from Keva; merchants of the king from Keva take at a price,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-17 Solomon's choice of wisdom, His strength and wealth. - SOLOMON began his reign with a pious, public visit to God's altar. Those that pursue present things most eagerly, are likely to be disappointed; while those that refer themselves to the providence of God, if they have not the most, have the most comfort. Those that make this world their end, come short of the other, and are disappointed in this also; but those that make the other world their end, shall not only obtain that, and full satisfaction in it, but shall have as much of this world as is good for them, in their way. Let us then be contented, without those great things which men generally covet, but which commonly prove fatal snares to the soul.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 16. - Horses brought.., out of Egypt. Later on we read that horses were imported from other countries as well (2 Chronicles 9:24, 28), as, for instance, from Arabia and Armenia (Ezekiel 27:14). Linen yarn. The words are without doubt wrong here. But it is impossible to say with any certainty what should be in their place. The Vulgate shows here from Coa, presumably meaning Tekoa, a small place on the road from Egypt to Jerusalem. It might not have been easy to surmise, however, so much as this, but for the fact that the Septuagint shows in the parallel place, "And from Tekoa" (Amos 1:1). The Septuagint, however, has for the present place, Καὶ ἡ τιμὴ τῶν ἐμπόρωντοῦ βασίλεως πορεύεσθαι καὶ ἠγόραζον The Hebrew word here translated "linen yarn" is מִקְואֵ (i.q. מִקְוֶה niph. of קָוָה, "to be gathered together").' Gesenius, followed by De Wette (and others), and himself following Piscator (born tire. 1480) and Vatablus (born circ. 1546), would translate the word "company," and read, "a company of the king's merchants took a company (of horses) at a price." Others would translate the word "import;" and read, "the import of the king's merchants was an import at a price," i.e. in money. Neither of these renderings can be considered really satisfactory. Some slight corruption of text still baulks us, therefore.

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Solomon's Riches
14And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. 15And 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. 16And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

Deuteronomy 17:16 The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, "You are not to go back that way again."
1 Kings 10:28 Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue --the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price.
2 Chronicles 1:17 They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.
2 Chronicles 9:28 Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from all other countries.
Song of Solomon 1:9 I liken you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh's chariot horses.