2 Chronicles 1:17
And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.
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This passage is very nearly identical with 1Ki 10:26-29.
Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
A horse for a hundred and fifty - Suppose we take the shekel at the utmost value at which it has been rated, three shillings; then the price of a horse was about twenty-two pounds ten shillings.
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Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
and so brought they outhorses … by their means i.e. by means of Solomon's merchants horses were exported for the kings of the Hittites and of Syria.