23. All the kings of the earth sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.
24. Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift—articles of silver and gold, and robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.
25. Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses, which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
26. He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.