22. For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
23. So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
24. All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
25. Year after year, every man brought his tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules.
26. Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he kept in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
27. The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.