פירוש על מלכים א 10:15

This was in addition [to the gold that came from] traveling merchants. Merchants would bring him who visited the land on business.⁵Alternatively, retailers who sell small quantities, spy [=תרים] out the land to determine where to do business.—Metzudas Tzion

Spice dealers. Spice dealers who would carry spices from one city to another.

And all the subordinate kings. [Targum] Yonoson rendered, “and all dependent upon his support,”⁶Alternatively, Arab kings.—Metzudas Tzion an expression of guarantee, [i.e.,] kings who were allies and were dependent upon his support, garantie, in O.F.