2 Chronicles 9:13–28

¹³And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, ¹⁴besides what dealers and merchants brought, and what all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought of gold and silver to Solomon. ¹⁵And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold, —he applied six hundred shekels of beaten gold to one target; ¹⁶and three hundred shields of beaten gold, —he applied three hundred shekels of gold to one shield; and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. ¹⁷And the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold; ¹⁸and the throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold fastened to the throne; and there were arms on each side at the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the arms; ¹⁹and 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. ²⁰And 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: silver was not of the least account in the days of Solomon. ²¹For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: once in three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. ²²And king Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. ²³And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. ²⁴And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and clothing, armour, and spices, horses and mules, a rate year by year. ²⁵And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he placed them in the chariot-cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. ²⁶And he ruled over all the kings from the river as far as the land of the Philistines, and up to the border of Egypt. ²⁷And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he as the sycamores that are in the lowland for abundance. ²⁸And they brought to Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.