1 Kings 10:19-29

19There were six steps to the throne and a round top to the throne at its rear, and 1arms 2on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the 3arms. 20Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. 21All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered 4valuable in the days of Solomon. 22For 5the king had at sea the ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

236So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. 24All the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, 7to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. 258They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

269Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he 10stationed them in the 11chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. 2712The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the 13lowland. 2814Also Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s merchants procured them from Kue for a price. 29A chariot 15was imported from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver, and a horse for 150; and 16by the same means they exported them 17to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of the Arameans.