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For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the merchant ships came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and monkeys.
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So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
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And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
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Each man brought his present: articles of silver and gold, garments, armor, spices, horses, and mules, at a set rate year by year.
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Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.