The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
KI1 10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all
the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring
them out by their means.
KI1 11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the
daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Zidonians, and Hittites:
KI1 11:2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the
children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come
in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods:
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