23. All the kings of the earth came to see Solomon. They wanted to hear the wisdom God had given him.
24. Every year everyone who came brought a gift. They brought things made of silver and gold, clothes, weapons, spices, horses and mules.
25. Solomon had 4,000 stalls to hold his horses and chariots. He had 12,000 horses. He kept them in special cities for the chariots. And he kept some with him in Jerusalem.
26. Solomon was king over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the Philistine country to the border of Egypt.