1 Kings 10:18

Easy-to-Read Version

King Solomon also built a large throne with ivory decorations. It was covered with pure gold.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The king also made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with fine gold.

Hebrew Names Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

King James Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

English Standard Version
The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with the finest gold.

New Century Version
The king built a large throne of ivory and covered it with fine gold.

New English Translation
The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

Amplified Bible
Also the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with the finest gold.

New American Standard Bible
Moreover, the king made a large throne of ivory and overlaid it with fine gold.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the King made a great throne of yuorie, and couered it with the best golde.

Legacy Standard Bible
Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.

Contemporary English Version
His throne was made of ivory and covered with pure gold.

Complete Jewish Bible
The king also made a large throne of ivory and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Darby Translation
And the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with refined gold:

George Lamsa Translation
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with gold from Ophir.

Good News Translation
He also had a large throne made. Part of it was covered with ivory and the rest of it was covered with the finest gold.

Lexham English Bible
The king also made a large ivory throne, and he overlaid it with fine gold.

Literal Translation
And the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the kynge made a greate seate of Yuery, and ouerlayed it with ye most precious golde.

American Standard Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Bible in Basic English
Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the king made a great seate of iuorie, and couered it with the best golde.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

King James Version (1611)
Moreouer the king made a great throne of yuorie, and ouerlaide it with the best gold.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the king made a great ivory throne, and gilded it with pure gold.

English Revised Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Berean Standard Bible
Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also kyng Salomon made a greet trone of yuer, and clothide it with ful fyn gold;

Young's Literal Translation
And the king maketh a great throne of ivory, and overlayeth it with refined gold;

Update Bible Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

World English Bible
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

New King James Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

New Living Translation
Then the king made a huge throne, decorated with ivory and overlaid with fine gold.

New Life Bible
Then the king made a large throne of ivory and covered it with fine gold.

New Revised Standard
The king also made a great ivory throne, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the king made a great throne of ivory, - and overlaid it with gold from Uphaz.

Douay-Rheims Bible
King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Revised Standard Version
The king also made a great ivory throne, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

THE MESSAGE
The king built a massive throne of ivory accented with a veneer of gold. The throne had six steps leading up to it, its back shaped like an arch. The armrests on each side were flanked by lions. Lions, twelve of them, were placed at either end of the six steps. There was no throne like it in any of the surrounding kingdoms.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Every year King Solomon received almost 25 tons of gold. ¹⁵ In addition to the gold brought in by the traveling merchants and traders, all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon. ¹⁶ King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold. He used about 15 pounds of gold for each shield. ¹⁷ He also made 300 smaller shields of hammered gold. He used almost 4 pounds of gold for each shield. The king put them in the Forest-of-Lebanon House. ¹⁸ King Solomon also built a large throne with ivory decorations. It was covered with pure gold. ¹⁹ There were six steps leading up to the throne. The back of the throne was round at the top. There were armrests on both sides of the throne, and there were lions in the sides of the throne under the armrests. ²⁰ There were also two lions on each of the six steps, one at each end. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom. ²¹ All of Solomon's cups and glasses were made of gold, and all the dishes in the building called the Forest of Lebanon were made from pure gold. Nothing in the palace was made from silver. There was so much gold that in Solomon's time people did not think silver was important. ²² The king also had many cargo ships that he sent out to trade things with other countries. These were Hiram's ships. Every three years the ships would come back with a new load of gold, silver, ivory, and apes and baboons. ²³ King Solomon became greater in riches and wisdom than any other king on earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a great throne: 2 Chronicles 9:17-19, Psalms 45:6, Psalms 110:1, Psalms 122:5, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 1:8, Revelation 20:11

ivory: 1 Kings 10:22, 1 Kings 22:39, Psalms 45:8, Ezekiel 27:6, Amos 6:4, Revelation 18:12

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:7 - for the throne Esther 5:1 - sat Song of Solomon 7:4 - ivory

Cross-References

Genesis 10:16
Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

Genesis 10:17
Hivites, Arkites, the Sinites,

Numbers 34:8
From Mount Hor it will go to Lebo Hamath, and then to Zedad.

Joshua 18:22
Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

2 Samuel 8:9
King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated Hadadezer's whole army.

2 Kings 17:24
The king of Assyria took the Israelites out of Samaria and brought in other people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim. They took over Samaria and lived in the cities around it.

2 Kings 17:30
The people of Babylon made the false god Succoth Benoth. The people of Cuthah made the false god Nergal. The people of Hamath made the false god Ashima.

2 Chronicles 13:4
Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, "Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me!

Isaiah 10:9
The city of Calno is no better than the city of Carchemish. Arpad is like Hamath, and Samaria is like Damascus.

Ezekiel 27:8
Men from Sidon and Arvad rowed your boats for you. Tyre, your wise men were the pilots on your ships.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory,.... To sit on and judge his people; and ivory being white, may denote the purity, justice, and equity with which he judged; the white throne in Revelation 20:11 may be an allusion to this; the ivory he had from Tarshish, 1 Kings 10:22

and overlaid it with the best gold; for the greater splendour and majesty of it; not that he covered it all over, for then the ivory would not be seen, but interlined it, or studded it with it, whereby it appeared the more beautiful and magnificent. Such a throne of gold and ivory was decreed to Caesar by the Romans p.

p Appian. Alex. l. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is, on the whole, probable that the substance of the throne was wood, and that the ivory, cut into thin slabs, and probably carved in patterns, was applied externally as a veneer. This is found to have been the practice in Assyria. The gold was probably not placed over the ivory, but covered other parts of the throne.