24. People from every nation wanted to hear the wisdom God had given him.
25. Year after year people came and brought gifts of silver and gold, as well as clothes, weapons, spices, horses, or mules.
26. Solomon had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses that he kept in Jerusalem and other towns.
27. While he was king, there was silver everywhere in Jerusalem, and cedar was as common as ordinary sycamore trees in the foothills.