1 Kings 10:23–29

²³King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth with respect to wealth and wisdom. ²⁴All of the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. ²⁵They were each bringing his gift; objects of silver and objects of gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. This used to happen year after year.^h

²⁶Solomon gathered chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses. He stationed them in the cities of the chariots and with the king in Jerusalem. ²⁷The king made the silver in Jerusalem as the stones, and the cedars he made as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah in abundance. ²⁸The import of the horses which were Solomon’s was from Egypt and from Kue; the traders of the king received horses from Kue at a price. ²⁹A chariot went up and went out from Egypt at six hundred silver shekels and a horse at a hundred and fifty. So it was for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Aram; by their hand they were exported.