23. So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in terms of riches and wisdom.
24. All the earth came to Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
25. Everyone brought an annual tribute in the form of presents, silver and gold cups, garments, armor, spices, horses, and mules.
26. Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen whom he stationed in the cities for chariots and with the king at Jerusalem.
27. The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as plentiful as stones, and he made cedars to be as plentiful as sycamore trees in the valley.
28. Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt along with linen yarn. The king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
29. He brought chariots from Egypt at a price of six hundred shekels of silver and a horse for a hundred and fifty. And he exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram, by their means.