1 Kings 10:22-29

22For the king had at sea the [large cargo] ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, monkeys, and peacocks.

23So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.

24All the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his mind.

25Every man brought a gift [of tribute]: articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

26Now Solomon collected chariots and horsemen; he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, which he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as plentiful as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

28Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue, and the king’s merchants acquired them from Kue, for a price.

29A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and in the same way they exported them, by the king’s merchants, to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram (Syria).