2 Chronicles 9:13–28

^13dNow the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; ¹⁴Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and ^||governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon. ¹⁵And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target. ¹⁶And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: ^ethree hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. ¹⁷Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with ^fpure gold. ¹⁸And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and ^†stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays: 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 the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of ^†pure gold: ^||none were of silver; it was ^gnot any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon. ²¹For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ^||ivory, and apes, and peacocks. ²²And king Solomon passed 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, that God had put in his heart. ²⁴And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, ^hharness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. ²⁵ⁱAnd Solomon had ^kfour thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. ^26lAnd he reigned over all the kings from the ^||river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. ²⁷And the king ^†made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in ^mthe low plains in abundance. ²⁸And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.