21. For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
22. Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
23. And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
24. Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and of gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
25. And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
26. And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.