21. King Solomon had many ships that he sent out to trade, with Hiram’s men as the crews. Every three years the ships returned, bringing back gold, silver, ivory, apes, and baboons.
22. King Solomon had more riches and wisdom than all the other kings on earth.
23. All the kings of the earth wanted to see Solomon and listen to the wisdom God had given him.
24. Year after year everyone who came brought gifts of silver and gold, clothes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
25. Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and he had twelve thousand horses. He kept some in special cities for the chariots, and others he kept with him in Jerusalem.
26. Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
27. In Jerusalem the king made silver as common as stones and cedar trees as plentiful as the fig trees on the western hills.
28. Solomon imported horses from Egypt and all other countries.
29. Everything else Solomon did, from the beginning to the end, is written in the records of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer, who wrote about Jeroboam, Nebat’s son.
30. Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.
31. Then Solomon died and was buried in Jerusalem, the city of David, his father. And Solomon’s son Rehoboam became king in his place.