1 Kings 10:23–29

²³So ^uking Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. ²⁴And all the earth ^†sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. ²⁵And they brought every man his ^wpresent, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. ^26xAnd Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had ^ya thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. ^27zAnd the king ^†made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as ^athe sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance. ^28†And Solomon had ^bhorses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price. ²⁹And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of ^cthe Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out ^†by their means.