Beside [that he had] of the merchantmen, and of the traffic of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country (10:15)

And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target (10:16)

And [he made] three hundred shields [of] beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon (10:17)

Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold (10:18)

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 seat, and two lions stood beside the stays (10:19)

And 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 (10:20)

And all king Solomon's drinking vessels [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 nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon (10:21)

For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks (10:22)

So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. (10:23) com1

And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. (10:24)

And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year (10:25)

And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem (10:26)

And the king made silver [to be] in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he [to be] as the sycamore trees that [are] in the vale, for abundance (10:27)

And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price (10:28)

And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring [them] out by their means (10:29)

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