1 Kings 10:21-29

New American Standard Bible

²¹ Now all King Solomon’s drinking utensils were of gold, and all the utensils of the house of the timber of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered as amounting to anything in the days of Solomon. ²² For ^(A)the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s ships; once every three years the ships of Tarshish would come carrying gold and silver, ivory, monkeys, and peacocks.

^23 (B)So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom. ²⁴ And all the earth was seeking the ^[a]attention of Solomon, ^(C)to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. ²⁵ And ^(D)they were bringing, everyone, ^[b]a gift: articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, balsam oil, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

^26 (E)Now Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had 1,400 chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he ^[c]stationed them in the ^(F)chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. ^27 (G)And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the ^[d]lowland. ^28 (H)Also Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s merchants acquired them from Kue for a price. ²⁹ A chariot ^[e]was imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for 150; and ^[f]by the same means they exported them ^(I)to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of the Arameans.