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 F16.