1 Kings 10:14–28

¹⁴And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, ¹⁵besides what came by the dealers, and by the traffic of the merchants, and by all the kings of Arabia, and by the governors of the country. ¹⁶And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold, —he applied six hundred shekels of gold to one target; ¹⁷and three hundred shields of beaten gold, —he applied three minas of gold to one shield; and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. ¹⁸And the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with refined gold: ¹⁹the throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was rounded behind; and there were arms on each side at the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the arms; ²⁰and twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom. ²¹And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of precious gold: none were of silver, which was not of the least account in the days of Solomon. ²²For the king had on the sea a Tarshish-fleet, with the fleet of Hiram: once in three years came the Tarshish-fleet, bringing gold and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. ²³And king Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. ²⁴And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. ²⁵And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armour, and spices, horses and mules, a rate year by year. ²⁶And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; and he had a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he placed them in the chariot-cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. ²⁷And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he as the sycamores that are in the lowland for abundance. ²⁸And the exportation of horses that Solomon had was from Egypt: a caravan of the king’s merchants fetched a drove of horses, at a price.