1 Kings 10:18

Myles Coverdale Bible

And the kynge made a greate seate of Yuery, and ouerlayed it with ye most precious golde.

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:

Easy-to-Read Version
King Solomon also built a large throne with ivory decorations. It was covered with pure 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.

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 The golde that came to Salomon in one yeare, was nyne and thyrtie score hundreth weighte, ¹⁵ besydes that which came of chapmen, marchauntes and Apotecaries, and of the nexte kynges, and of the mightie men in the londe. ¹⁶ And kynge Salomon caused to make two hundreth speares of beaten golde, sixe hundreth peces of golde put he to euery speare: ¹⁷ and thre hundreth shyldes of ye best golde, euen thre pounde of golde vpon euery shylde. And the kynge put them in the house of the wod of Libanus. ¹⁸ And the kynge made a greate seate of Yuery, and ouerlayed it with ye most precious golde. ¹⁹ And the seate had sixe steppes, and ye heade of the seate was roude behynde. And there were two postes to leane vpo on both the sydes of the seate, and two lyons stode vpon the leanynge postes, ²⁰ and twolue lyons stode vpon the sixe steppes on both the sydes. Soch one hath not bene made in eny kyngdome. ²¹ All kynge Salomos drynkynge vessels were of golde, and all the vessels in the house of ye wod of Libanus were of pure golde also: for syluer was not regarded in Salomons tyme. ²² For the kynges Seeshippe yt sayled vpon the See with ye shippe of Hiram, came once in thre yeare, and broughte golde, syluer, Yuery, Apes, and Pecockes. ²³ Thus was kynge Salomon greater in riches and wy?dome, then all the kynges vpo 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
Iebusi, Emori, Girgosi,

Genesis 10:17
Hiui, Arki, Sini,

Numbers 34:8
And fro mount Hor ye shall compasse tyll a man come vnto Hemath, that the outgoynge therof be the coast of Zedada,

Joshua 18:22
Betharaba, Zemaraim, Bethel,

2 Samuel 8:9
Whan Thoi the kynge of Hemath herde, that Dauid had smytten all the power of Hadad Eser,

2 Kings 17:24
The kynge of Assiria caused men to come fro Babilon, from Cutha, fro Aua, from Hemath & Sepharuaim, & caused the to inhabite ye cities in Samaria in steade of the children of Israel. And they toke possession of Samaria, & dwelt in ye same cities.

2 Kings 17:30
They of Babilo made Sochoth Benoth. They of Chut made Nergel. They of Hemath made Asima.

2 Chronicles 13:4
And Abia gatt him vp vpon the hyll Zemaraim, which lyeth vpon mount Ephraim and sayde: Herken vnto me thou Ieroboam and all Israel:

Isaiah 10:9
Is not Calno as easie to wynne, as Charchamis? Is it harder to conquere Antiochia then Arphad? Or is it lighter to ouercome Damascus the Samaria?

Ezekiel 27:8
They of Sido & Arnad were thy maryners, & the wysest in Tyre were thy shypmasters.

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.