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20 And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon pure gold. Silver was not accounted for anything in the days of Solomon. 21 For ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once in three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 22 And King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. 23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom that God had put in his heart. 24 And they brought, each man, his present, articles of silver, and articles gold, and garments, armor and spices, horses and mules, a matter of year by year. 25 And there were unto Solomon four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses; and he stationed them in cities of the chariot and with the king at Jerusalem. 26 And he reigned over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt. 27 And the king made the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees he made as abundant as the sycamores that are in the Shephelah. 28 And they brought to Solomon horses from Egypt, and from all the lands. 29 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written in the Words of Nathan the Prophet, and in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the Visions of Iddo the Seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat? 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 And Solomon rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. 2 Chronicles 9:20-31, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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