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For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram: once every three years came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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And King Solomon passed 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 that God had put in his heart.
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And they brought every man his present: vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a set rate year by year.
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And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he positioned in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
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And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.
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And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
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And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt and out of all lands.
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Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
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And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the City of David his father; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.