10. and make me wise. Give me the knowledge I'll need to be the king of this great nation of yours.
11. God replied:Solomon, you could have asked me to make you rich or famous or to let you live a long time. Or you could have asked for your enemies to be destroyed. Instead, you asked for wisdom and knowledge to rule my people.
12. So I will make you wise and intelligent. But I will also make you richer and more famous than any king before or after you.
13. Solomon then left Gibeon and returned to Jerusalem, the capital city of Israel.
14. Solomon had a force of one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses that he kept in Jerusalem and other towns.
15. While Solomon was king of Israel, there was silver and gold everywhere in Jerusalem, and cedar was as common as ordinary sycamore trees in the foothills.
16-17. Solomon's merchants bought his horses and chariots in the regions of Musri and Kue. They paid six hundred pieces of silver for a chariot and a hundred and fifty pieces of silver for a horse. They also sold horses and chariots to the Hittite and Syrian kings.