¹³And it happened that the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, ¹⁴besides that which traders and merchants brought, and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon. ¹⁵And King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into each shield. ¹⁶And he made three hundred small shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels went into each small shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. ¹⁷And the king made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold. ¹⁸And the throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to the throne. And there were armrests on each side.^d And by the seat^e were two lions standing beside the armrests. ¹⁹And twelve lions were standing there on each of the six steps on each end.^f And there was nothing like it made in all the 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. Silver was not valued as anything in the days of Solomon. ²¹For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram.^g Once every three years^h the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

²²Thus King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom. ²³And all the kings of the earth sought the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God put in his heart. ²⁴And each of them brought his gifts, objects of silver, objects of gold, cloaks, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, as an amount year by year.

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Footnotes

dLiterally “from this and from that”
eLiterally “the place of sitting”
fLiterally “from this and from that”
gThis is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have “Hiram”
hLiterally “for three years”