Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
Parallel translations
- WEB Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.
- BSB Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.
- NKJV Their land is also full of silver and gold, And there is no end to their treasures; Their land is also full of horses, And there is no end to their chariots.
- NASB Their land has also been filled with silver and gold And there is no end to their treasures; Their land has also been filled with horses, And there is no end to their chariots.
- NLT Israel is full of silver and gold; there is no end to its treasures. Their land is full of warhorses; there is no end to its chariots.
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Quick answer
Their land overflows with silver, gold, horses, and chariots. Their abundant wealth and military power had become objects of misplaced trust.
Overview
Material riches and military strength, in themselves not evil, had become substitutes for trust in God. Kings were specifically warned against accumulating such things (Deuteronomy 17:16-17). The verse exposes the human tendency to rely on resources rather than the Lord.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
- Isa 30:16But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
- Isa 31:1Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!
- Deut 17:16–17But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
- Mic 5:10And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:
- Rev 18:11–17And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
- 2 Chr 9:20–25And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
- 1 Kgs 4:26And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
- Jas 5:1–3Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
- 1 Kgs 10:21–27And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
- Hos 14:3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
- Rev 18:3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
- Jer 5:27–28As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
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