19. And twelve lions were standing there on each of the six steps on each end. And there was nothing like it made in all the kingdom.
20. And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not valued as anything in the days of Solomon.
21. For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
22. Thus King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.
23. And all the kings of the earth sought the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God put in his heart.
24. And each of them brought his gifts, objects of silver, objects of gold, cloaks, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, as an amount year by year.
25. And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
26. And he ruled over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, to the boundary of Egypt.
27. And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as the sycamore trees that are in the Shephelah for abundance.
28. And the horses were imported from Egypt and from all lands for Solomon.
29. As for the remainder of the words of Solomon from the first to the last, are they not written in the chronicles of Nathan the prophet and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer, concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
30. And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
31. And Solomon slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.