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Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one yere, was sixe hundred, threescore & six talents of gold,

Besides that he had of the merchant men, and of the traffique of the spicemerchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the gouernours of the countrey.

And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten golde: sixe hundred shekels of golde went to one target.

And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold, three pound of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the house of the forrest of Lebanon.

Moreouer the king made a great throne of yuorie, and ouerlaide it with the best gold.

The throne had sixe steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stayes on either side on the place of the seate, and two lyons stood beside the stayes.

And twelue lions stood there on the one side and on the other vpon the sixe steps: there was not the like made in any kingdome.

And all king Solomons drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forrest of Lebanon were of pure gold, none were of siluer, it was nothing accounted of in the dayes of Solomon.

For the king had at sea a nauie of Tharshish, with the nauie of Hiram: once in three yeeres came the nauie of Tharshish, bringing golde and siluer, yuorie, and apes, and peacocks.

So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth, for riches and for wisedome.

And all the earth sought to Solomon, to heare his wisedom which God had put in his heart.

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.

And Solomon gathered together charets and horsemen. And hee had a thousand and foure hundred charets, and twelue thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for charets, and with the king at Ierusalem.

And the king made siluer to be in Ierusalem as stones, and Cedars made he to be as the Sycomore trees, that are in the vale for abundance.

And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarne: the kings merchants receiued the linen yarne at a price.

And a charet came vp and went out of Egypt for sixe hundred shekels of siluer, and an horse for an hundred and fiftie: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their meanes.