1 Kings 10:25-27

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²⁵ They brought him annual tribute of silver and gold dishes, beautiful cloth, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules.

²⁶ Solomon built up a great stable of horses with a vast number of chariots and cavalry—1,400 chariots in all and 12,000 cavalrymen, who lived in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem. ²⁷ Silver was as common as stones in Jerusalem in those days, and cedar was of no greater value than the common sycamore!