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So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
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All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
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They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
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Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
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The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
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A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.