1 Kings 10:18-29

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁸ Then the king made a great throne of ivory and covered it with the best gold.

¹⁹ And the 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 throne, and two lions standing by the stays.

²⁰ And there stood twelve lions on the six steps on either side. There was nothing like it made in any kingdom.

²¹ And all King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold. And all the vessels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were silver. For it was nothing esteemed in the days of Solomon.

²² For the king had the navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram on the sea. The navy of Tarshish came every three years and brought gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

²³ So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the Earth, both in riches and in wisdom.

²⁴ And all the world sought to see Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.

²⁵ And every man brought his present: vessels of silver and vessels of gold and raiment and armor and sweet odors, horses and mules, from year to year.

²⁶ Then Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. And he had a thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he placed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

²⁷ And the king gave silver in Jerusalem as stones and gave cedars as the wild fig trees that grow abundantly in the plain.

²⁸ Also, Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and fine linen. The king’s merchants received the linen for a price.

²⁹ There came up and went out of Egypt chariots worth six hundred shekels of silver, one horse being a hundred fifty. And thus they brought horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram, according to their means.