And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.(1 Kings 10:24)

And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.(1 Kings 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.(1 Kings 10:26)

And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.(1 Kings 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.(1 Kings 10:29)

But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:(1 Kings 11:1)