1Kings:10:14-29

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* The weight of gold that came to Solomon yearly was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold , * besides that from the traveling merchants , from the income of traders , from all the kings of Arabia , and from the governors of the country . * And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold ; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield . * He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold ; three minas of gold went into each shield . The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon . * Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory , and overlaid it with pure gold . * The throne had six steps , and the top of the throne was round at the back ; there were armrests on either side of the place of the seat , and two lions stood beside the armrests . * Twelve lions stood there , one on each side of the six steps ; nothing like this had been made for any other kingdom . * All King Solomon 's drinking vessels were gold , and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold . Not one was silver , for this was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon . * For the king had merchant ships at sea with the fleet of Hiram . Once every three years the merchant ships came bringing gold , silver , ivory , apes , and monkeys . * So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom . * Now all the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom , which God had put in his heart . * Each man brought his present : articles of silver and gold , garments , armor , spices , horses , and mules , at a set rate year by year . * And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen ; he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen , whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem . * The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones , and he made cedar trees as abundant as the sycamores which are in the lowland . * Also Solomon had horses imported from Egypt and Keveh ; the king 's merchants bought them in Keveh at the current price . * Now a chariot that was imported from Egypt cost six hundred shekels of silver , and a horse one hundred and fifty ; and thus , through their agents , they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria .

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