13. So Solomon left the place of worship at Gibeon, where the Tent of the Lord's presence was, and returned to Jerusalem. There he ruled over Israel.
14. He built up a force of 1,400 chariots and 12,000 cavalry horses. Some of them he kept in Jerusalem, and the rest he stationed in various other cities.
15. During his reign silver and gold became as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar was as plentiful as ordinary sycomore.
16. The king's agents controlled the export of horses from Musri and Cilicia,
17. and the export of chariots from Egypt. They supplied the Hittite and Syrian kings with horses and chariots, selling chariots for 600 pieces of silver each and horses for 150 each.