1 Kings 10:14–29

^14mNow the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold, ¹⁵Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the ⁿspice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the ^||governors of the country. ¹⁶And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. ¹⁷And he made three hundred ^oshields of beaten gold; ^pthree pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in ^qthe house of the forest of Lebanon. ¹⁸Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the ^rbest gold. ¹⁹The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round ^†behind: and there were ^†stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays. 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 ^sthe house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; ^||none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. ²²For the king had at sea a navy of ^tTharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ^||ivory, and apes, and peacocks. ²³So ^uking Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. ²⁴And all the earth ^†sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. ²⁵And they brought every man his ^wpresent, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. ^26xAnd Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had ^ya thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. ^27zAnd the king ^†made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as ^athe sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance. ^28†And Solomon had ^bhorses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price. ²⁹And 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 ^cthe Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out ^†by their means.