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1 Kings 10:28 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 28. 28And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Chariots and horses make Solomon an arms broker.”
Chariots and horsemen fill garrison cities
This verse is one part of that explanation in 1 Kings 10:26–29. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- 1 Kings 10:26–29
Read 1 Kings 10:28 with 10:26–29. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Counts Solomon's chariots and horsemen and locates them in garrison cities and Jerusalem; gives the Egyptian prices for chariots and horses and describes resale to Hittite and Aramean kings.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Chariots and horses make Solomon an arms broker,” 1 Kings 10:28 advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence through the wording “And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The arms and horse trade extends the wealth inventory from luxury into military accumulation and international brokerage. The next chapter tests the accumulated king's allegiance, so military and economic success cannot function as the final evaluation of his wisdom.
Read 1 Kings 10:26–29 together
Why these verses belong together: Chariots and horses make Solomon an arms broker is the complete reviewed scene, prayer, oracle, list, or regnal notice bounded at 10:26–10:29.
Verse 26. 26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
Verse 27. 27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
Verse 28. 28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
Verse 29. 29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
What Remains True
Wealth, military reach, trade, and public splendor remain answerable to covenant faithfulness, affected people, honest accounting, and the ends they serve. This unit tests that truth through counts Solomon's chariots and horsemen and locates them in garrison cities and Jerusalem; gives the Egyptian prices for chariots and horses and describes resale to Hittite and Aramean kings. In 1 Kings 10:28, the concrete line “And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read 1 Kings 10:26–29 — Chariots and horses make Solomon an arms brokerSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 1 Kings 10:26–29, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording and morphology used for lexical, grammatical, name, clause, and older-English checks; this is not a critical apparatus or historical proof.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 10:26–29
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 1 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Only printed unit-level translation, lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, and verse-numbering notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 1 Kings PDF, printed pp. 604–605, translation and translator notes for 10:26–29
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