2 Chronicles 9:21-27
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21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
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23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
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24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
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25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
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27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.