Silver and gold... stones... cedar trees. — Each of these words has the definite article in the Hebrew.

And gold. — Not in 1 Kings 10:27, with which the rest of the verse coincides; nor in 2 Chronicles 9:27. The Syriac omits it here also, but the other versions have it, and the phrase is a natural heightening of the hyperbole.

The sycomore trees that are in the vale. — (Comp. 1 Chronicles 27:28.) The Syriac reads instead. “As the sand which is on the seashore.”

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