# 1,400 chariots

"one thousand four hundred chariots" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

# twelve thousand horsemen

"12,000 horsemen" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

# in the chariot cities

This is a reference to cities which stored his chariots.

# The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as the stones

The narrator uses exaggeration to emphasize the great amount of silver that was in Jerusalem. AT: "The king had so much silver in Jerusalem, it was like there was as much silver as there was stones on the ground" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole]])

# the sycamore trees

This is a tree that grows fruit that looks like figs. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-unknown]])