24
Year after year everyone who came brought gifts of silver and gold, clothes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
25
Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and he had twelve thousand horses. He kept some in special cities for the chariots, and others he kept with him in Jerusalem.
26
Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
27
In Jerusalem the king made silver as common as stones and cedar trees as plentiful as the fig trees on the western hills.
28
Solomon imported horses from Egypt and all other countries.