Diplomacy: Solomon, in his Alliance with Hiram

Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David. …

Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace, …

King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

And Hiram sent his servants, sailors who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.

(The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.