2 Chronicles 9:13-28
1599 Geneva Bible
13 ¶ Also the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year, was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
14 Besides that which chapmen and merchants brought: and all the Kings of Arabia, and the princes of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
15 And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold, and [a]six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
16 And three hundred shields of beaten gold: three hundred [b]shekels of gold went to one shield, and the king put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.
17 And the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
18 And the throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold [c]fastened to the throne, and stays on either side on the place of the seats, and two lions standing by the [d]stays.
19 And twelve lions stood there on the six steps on either side: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
20 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: for silver was nothing esteemed in the days of Solomon.
21 For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram, every three years once came the ships of [e]Tarshish, and brought gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
22 So king Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
23 And all the Kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom that God had put in his heart.
24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, armor, and sweet odors, horses, and mules, from year to year.
25 And Solomon had [f]four thousand stalls of horses, and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
26 And he reigned over all the kings from the [g]River even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
27 And the king gave silver in Jerusalem, [h]as stones, and gave cedar trees as the wild fig trees, that are abundant in the plain.
28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:15 Which sum mounteth to 2400 crowns of the sun, Budeus De Asse.
- 2 Chronicles 9:16 Or, pounds called mina, whereof every one seemed to make an hundred shekels.
- 2 Chronicles 9:18 That is, the steps and the footstool were fastened to the throne.
- 2 Chronicles 9:18 Upon the pommels or knops.
- 2 Chronicles 9:21 Which country of the best writers is thought to be Cilicia, read 1 Kings 10:22.
- 2 Chronicles 9:25 That is, ten horses in every stable, which in all amounts to forty thousand , as 1 Kings 4:26.
- 2 Chronicles 9:26 Or, Euphrates.
- 2 Chronicles 9:27 The abundance of these temporal treasures in Solomon’s kingdom is a figure of the Spiritual treasures, which the elect shall enjoy in the heavens under the true Solomon, Christ.
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