Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Chronicles 1:17:
- Kupsabiny: “One cart was bought in Egypt for six hundred pieces of silver. One horse was bought for one hundred and fifty pieces of silver. Solomon sold half/part of those horses and carts to rulers of the Hittites and those of Syria.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Solomon’s merchants would buy one chariot from Egypt for seven kilograms of silver, and one horse for one and a half kilograms of silver. They would also sell those chariots and horses to the Hittite and Aramean kings.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “That time the price of a chariot from Egipto was 600 pieces of silver, and the horse was 150 pieces of silver. These [as-a-matter-of-fact] were-sold by the men of Solomon to all the kings of Hithanon and Arameanhon.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “In Egypt his men paid 15 pounds of silver for each chariot and 3-3/4 pounds of silver for each horse. They also exported/sold many of them to the kings of the Heth and Aram people-groups.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
