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Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
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The whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
25
Every one of them brought a present, objects of silver and gold, garments, weaponry, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
26
Solomon gathered together chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
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The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as numerous as the sycamores of the Shephelah.
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Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's traders received them from Kue at a price.
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A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; so through the king's traders they were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.