²⁵ Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift^(A)—articles of silver and gold, robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.

²⁶ Solomon accumulated chariots and horses;^(B) he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,^[a] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. ²⁷ The king made silver as common^(C) in Jerusalem as stones,^(D) and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig^(E) trees in the foothills.