25. Three times a year, Solomon burnt incense and offered sacrifices to the Lord on the altar he had built.Solomon had now finished building the Lord's temple.
26. He also had a lot of ships at Ezion-Geber, a town in Edom near Eloth on the Red Sea.
27-28. King Hiram let some of his experienced sailors go to the country of Ophir with Solomon's own sailors, and they brought back about fourteen thousand kilogrammes of gold for Solomon.