2 Chronicles 9:13-28
Solomon’s Wealth and Splendor

13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

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14 Beside [that which] chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

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15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.

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16 And three hundred shields [made he of] beaten gold: three hundred [shekels] of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

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17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

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18 And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, [which were] fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:

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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.

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20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon [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 [not] any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

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21 For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

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22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

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23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

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24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

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25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

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26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

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27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the low plains in abundance.

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28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

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