24. and so the whole earth wanted an audience with Solomon in order to hear his God-given wisdom.
25. Year after year they came with tribute: objects of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
26. Solomon acquired more and more chariots and horses until he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses that he kept in chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
27. In Jerusalem, the king made silver as common as stones and cedar as plentiful as sycamore trees that grow in the foothills.
28. Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue, purchased from Kue by the king’s agents at the going price.
29. They would import a chariot from Egypt for six hundred pieces of silver and a horse for one hundred fifty, and then export them to all the Hittite and Aramean kings.