24
And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses and beasts for transport, regularly year by year.
25
Solomon had four thousand buildings for his horses and his war-carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king in Jerusalem.
26
And he was ruler over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the limit of Egypt.
27
The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.
28
They got horses for Solomon from Egypt and from every land.
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