12. wisdom and knowledge are given you. I will also give you riches, treasures, and glory, such as kings before you never had, nor will those who come after you.
13. Solomon returned to Jerusalem from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, and became king over Israel.
14. Solomon amassed chariots and horses: he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses; these he allocated among the chariot cities and to the king’s service in Jerusalem.
15. The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as numerous as the sycamores of the Shephelah.
16. Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Cilicia, where the king’s agents purchased them at the prevailing price.
17. A chariot imported from Egypt cost six hundred shekels of silver, a horse one hundred and fifty shekels; so they were exported to all the Hittite and Aramean kings.
18. Solomon gave orders for the building of a house for the name of the Lord and also a king’s house for himself.