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Solomon’s Wealth and Splendor

13 Each year Solomon received about 25 tons[a] of gold.

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  1. 9:13 Hebrew 666 talents [23 metric tons].

15 Long live the king!
    May the gold of Sheba be given to him.
May the people always pray for him
    and bless him all day long.

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10 The western kings of Tarshish and other distant lands
    will bring him tribute.
The eastern kings of Sheba and Seba
    will bring him gifts.

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29 The kings of the earth are bringing tribute
    to your Temple in Jerusalem.

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Solomon’s Wealth and Splendor

14 Each year Solomon received about 25 tons[a] of gold. 15 This did not include the additional revenue he received from merchants and traders, all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of the land.

16 King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than fifteen pounds.[b] 17 He also made 300 smaller shields of hammered gold, each weighing nearly four pounds.[c] The king placed these shields in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.

18 Then the king made a huge throne, decorated with ivory and overlaid with fine gold. 19 The throne had six steps and a rounded back. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, and the figure of a lion stood on each side of the throne. 20 There were also twelve other lions, one standing on each end of the six steps. No other throne in all the world could be compared with it!

21 All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were solid gold, as were all the utensils in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. They were not made of silver, for silver was considered worthless in Solomon’s day!

22 The king had a fleet of trading ships of Tarshish that sailed with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the ships returned, loaded with gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.[d]

23 So King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king on earth. 24 People from every nation came to consult him and to hear the wisdom God had given him. 25 Year after year everyone who visited brought him gifts of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.

26 Solomon built up a huge force of chariots and horses.[e] He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He stationed some of them in the chariot cities and some near him in Jerusalem. 27 The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.[f] 28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt[g] and from Cilicia[h]; the king’s traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:14 Hebrew 666 talents [23 metric tons].
  2. 10:16 Hebrew 600 [shekels] of gold [6.8 kilograms].
  3. 10:17 Hebrew 3 minas [1.8 kilograms].
  4. 10:22 Or and baboons.
  5. 10:26 Or charioteers; also in 10:26b.
  6. 10:27 Hebrew the Shephelah.
  7. 10:28a Possibly Muzur, a district near Cilicia; also in 10:29.
  8. 10:28b Hebrew Kue, probably another name for Cilicia.

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