2 Chronicles 9:20-27

20All King Solomon’s cups were gold, and all the utensils for the hall ⌞named⌟ the Forest of Lebanon were fine gold. (Silver wasn’t considered valuable in Solomon’s time.)

21The king had ships going to Tarshish with Huram’s sailors. Once every three years the Tarshish ships would bring gold, silver, ivory, apes, and monkeys.

22In wealth and wisdom King Solomon was greater than all the ⌞other⌟ kings of the world.

23All the kings of the world wanted to listen to the wisdom that God gave Solomon.

24So everyone who came brought him gifts: articles of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. This happened year after year.

25Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 war horses. He stationed ⌞some⌟ in chariot cities and ⌞others⌟ with himself in Jerusalem.

26He ruled all the kings from the Euphrates River to the country of the Philistines and as far as the Egyptian border.

27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as plentiful as fig trees in the foothills.