1 Kings 10:22-29

22For 1the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s ships; once every three years the ships of Tarshish would come carrying gold and silver, ivory, monkeys, and peacocks.

232So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom. 24And all the earth was seeking the 3attention of Solomon, 4to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. 25And 5they were bringing, everyone, 6a gift: articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, balsam oil, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

267Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he 8stationed them in the 9chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. 2710And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the 11lowland. 2812Also Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s merchants acquired them from Kue for a price. 29A chariot 13was imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for 150; and 14by the same means they exported them 15to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of the Arameans.