21. The king had a fleet of large merchant ships manned by Huram’s men that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet came into port with cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
22. King Solomon was wealthier and wiser than any of the kings of the earth.
23. All the kings of the earth wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.
24. Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.
25. Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.
26. He ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt.
27. The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands.
28. Solomon acquired horses from Egypt and from all the lands.
29. The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded in the Annals of Nathan the Prophet, the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and the Vision of Iddo the Seer pertaining to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
30. Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem for forty years.
31. Then Solomon passed away and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.