1 Kings 10:27

silver Here the LXX. has -gold and silver," and so too in the parallel passage 2 Chronicles 9:27, and where the passage is inserted 2 Chronicles 1:15 the LXX. reads τὸ ἀργύριον καὶ τὸ χρυσίον.

in the vale The word (Shefelah) here rendered -vale" is the name of that low-lying part of Palestine which stretches westward from the mountains of Judah to the Mediterranean (cf. Joshua 9:1; Joshua 12:8). The R.V. has always distinguished this as the lowland. It was a district fertile and specially well-wooded. The Hebrew word though at first only descriptive, became at last a proper name -Sephela." See 1Ma 12:38.