For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks (10:22)

So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. (10:23) com1

And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. (10:24)

And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year (10:25)

And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem (10:26)

And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he [to be] as the sycamore trees that [are] in the vale, for abundance (10:27)

And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price (10:28)

And 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 the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring [them] out by their means (10:29)

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