1 Kings 10:14–28

Solomon’s Great Wealth

¹⁴The weight of gold that came to Solomon yearly was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, ¹⁵besides that from the ^ltraveling merchants, from the income of traders, ^mfrom all the kings of Arabia, and from the governors of the country.

¹⁶And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. ¹⁷He also made ⁿthree hundred shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the ^oHouse of the Forest of Lebanon.

^18pMoreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. ¹⁹The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round at the back; there were armrests on either side of the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the armrests. ²⁰Twelve lions stood there, one on each side of the six steps; nothing like this had been made for any other kingdom.

^21qAll King Solomon’s drinking vessels were gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Not one was silver, for this was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon. ²²For the king had ^rmerchant ⁵ships at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the merchant ^sships came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and ⁶monkeys. ²³So ^tKing Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

²⁴Now all the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. ²⁵Each man brought his present: articles of silver and gold, garments, armor, spices, horses, and mules, at a set rate year by year.

^26uAnd Solomon ^vgathered chariots and horsemen; he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he ⁷stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem. ^27wThe king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar trees as abundant as the sycamores which are in the lowland.

^28xAlso Solomon had horses imported from Egypt and Keveh; the king’s merchants bought them in Keveh at the current price.