Maritime Trade and Wealth

2 Chronicles 8:17-18

Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, on the sea-shore in the land of Edom.

And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.