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1 Kings 10:25

Every year people came to see the king and brought gifts made from gold and silver, clothes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - King;   Mule;   Silver;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arms, Military;   Beasts;   Holy Land;   Kings;   Mule, the;   Presents;   Silver;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mule;   Sabeans;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Israel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gift;   Mule;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Commerce;   Egypt;   Mizpah;   Silver;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ointment;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Government;   Israel;   Mule;   Sheba, Queen of;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gifts;   Mule;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hiram;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Chariot,;   Sol'omon;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Mule;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Armor;   Balsam;   Commerce;   King;   Mule;   Sacrifice;   Solomon;   Tax;   Trade;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ass;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Taxation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Every man would bring his annual tribute: items of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, and horses and mules.
Hebrew Names Version
They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
New Century Version
Every year those who came brought gifts of silver and gold, clothes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
New English Translation
Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.
Amplified Bible
Every man brought a gift [of tribute]: articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
New American Standard Bible
And they were bringing, everyone, a gift: articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, balsam oil, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of golde, and raiment, and armour, and sweete odours, horses & mules, from yeere to yeere.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they brought every man his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, a set amount year by year.
Contemporary English Version
Year after year people came and brought gifts of silver and gold, as well as clothes, weapons, spices, horses, or mules.
Complete Jewish Bible
Each one brought his present — articles of silver, articles of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses and mules; and this continued year after year.
Darby Translation
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armour, and spices, horses and mules, a rate year by year.
George Lamsa Translation
And they brought every man his present, vessels of gold and vessels of silver, garments, armor, spices, horses, fancy chariots, and mules, year by year.
Good News Translation
Everyone who came brought him a gift—articles of silver and gold, robes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. This continued year after year.
Lexham English Bible
They were each bringing his gift; objects of silver and objects of gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. This used to happen year after year.
Literal Translation
and they were each one bringing his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a year by year matter.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they broughte him yearly euery man his present, vessels of syluer and golde, rayment and harnesse, spyces, horses and Mules.
American Standard Version
And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Bible in Basic English
And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by year.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And brought him euery man his present, vessels of siluer, & vessels of golde, rayment, harnesse, and sweete odours, and horses, and mules, yere by yere.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
King James Version (1611)
And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate yeere by yeere.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they brought every one their gifts, vessels of gold, and raiment, and stacte, and spices, and horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
English Revised Version
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Berean Standard Bible
Year after year, each visitor would bring his tribute: articles of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle men brouyten yiftis to hym, vessels of gold, and of siluer, clothis, and armeris of batel, and swete smellynge thingis, and horsis, and mulis, bi ech yeer.
Young's Literal Translation
and they are bringing each his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, the matter of a year in a year.
Update Bible Version
And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
World English Bible
They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
New King James Version
Each man brought his present: articles of silver and gold, garments, armor, spices, horses, and mules, at a set rate year by year.
New Living Translation
Year after year everyone who visited brought him gifts of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
New Life Bible
Every one of them brought his gift. They brought objects of silver and gold, clothing, objects for fighting in battle, spices, horses and donkeys, so much year by year.
New Revised Standard
Every one of them brought a present, objects of silver and gold, garments, weaponry, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, they, did bring every man his present - vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses and mules, - a rate of a year in a year.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And every one brought him presents, vessels of silver and of gold, garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules, every year.
Revised Standard Version
Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

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

every man: 1 Kings 10:10, Judges 3:15, 1 Samuel 10:27, 2 Samuel 8:2, 2 Samuel 8:10, 2 Chronicles 26:8, Job 42:11, Psalms 72:10, Psalms 72:15, Isaiah 36:16, Matthew 2:11

and mules: 1 Kings 1:33, 1 Kings 18:5, Genesis 36:24, Ezra 2:66, Esther 8:10, Esther 8:14, Isaiah 66:20, Ezekiel 27:14

a rate: 2 Kings 17:4, 2 Chronicles 9:24

Reciprocal: Genesis 43:11 - carry down 1 Kings 4:26 - forty thousand 2 Kings 20:13 - precious things 1 Chronicles 18:2 - brought gifts 2 Chronicles 17:5 - presents 2 Chronicles 32:23 - presents Psalms 68:29 - shall Isaiah 39:2 - precious things Revelation 18:13 - cinnamon

Cross-References

Genesis 10:16
Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,
Genesis 10:19
The land where the Canaanites lived went from Sidon down along the coast to Gerar and from Gaza as far east as Sodom and Gomorrah and from Admah and Zeboiim as far north as Laish.
Genesis 10:21
Shem was Japheth's older brother. One of Shem's descendants was Eber, the father of all the Hebrew people.
Genesis 10:32
This is the list of the families from Noah's sons. They are arranged according to their nations. From these families came all the people who spread across the earth after the flood.
Deuteronomy 32:8
God Most High separated the people on earth and gave each nation its land. He set up borders for all people. He made as many nations as there are angels.
1 Chronicles 1:19
Eber had two sons. One son was named Peleg, because the people on the earth were divided into different languages during his lifetime. Peleg's brother was named Joktan.
Acts 17:26
God began by making one man, and from him he made all the different people who live everywhere in the world. He decided exactly when and where they would live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they brought every man his present,.... To recommend them, and introduce them into his presence:

vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules, a rate year by year; everyone brought according to the commodities of his country; and they did yearly, out of great respect to him, and in veneration of him for his wisdom, and for the advantages they received by his wise counsels and instructions; besides, it was the custom of the eastern countries not to pay a visit, especially to great personages, without carrying a present.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His present - i. e., his tribute (1 Kings 4:21 note). A statement illustrated by Egyptian and Assyrian sculptures on slabs and obelisks. Tribute-bearers from the subject kings, bring not only the fixed rate of bullion, but a tribute in kind besides, consisting of the most precious products of their respective countries.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 25. They brought every man his present — This means tribute; and it shows us of what sort that tribute was, viz., vessels of gold and silver, probably ingots; garments of very rich stuffs; armour, for little of this kind was ever made in Judea; spices, which doubtless sold well in that country; horses, which were very rare; and mules, the most necessary animal for all the purposes of life.


 
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