1Kings:10:23-29
rsv@1Kings:10:23 @ Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
rsv@1Kings:10:24 @ And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
rsv@1Kings:10:25 @ Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
rsv@1Kings:10:26 @ And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
rsv@1Kings:10:27 @ And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephe'lah.
rsv@1Kings:10:28 @ And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Ku'e, and the king's traders received them from Ku'e at a price.
rsv@1Kings:10:29 @ A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so through the king's traders they were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.
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