10. Give me, therefore, wisdom and knowledge to govern this people, for otherwise who could rule this vast people of yours?”
11. God then replied to Solomon: Because this has been your wish—you did not ask for riches, treasures, and glory, or the life of those who hate you, or even for a long life for yourself, but you have asked for wisdom and knowledge in order to rule my people over whom I have made you king—
12. wisdom and knowledge are given you. I will also give you riches, treasures, and glory, such as kings before you never had, nor will those who come after you.
13. Solomon returned to Jerusalem from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, and became king over Israel.
14. Solomon amassed chariots and horses: he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses; these he allocated among the chariot cities and to the king’s service in Jerusalem.
15. The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as numerous as the sycamores of the Shephelah.