²⁴ And every year they brought him presents, vessels of silver and of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules.

²⁵ And Solomon had forty thousand horses in the stables, and twelve thousand chariots, and horsemen, and he placed them in the cities of the chariots, and where the king was in Jerusalem.

²⁶ And he exercised authority over all the kings from the river Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt.