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while twelve lions were standing, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.
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All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.
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For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
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Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
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All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
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Every one of them brought a present, objects of silver and gold, garments, weaponry, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
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Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
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He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
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The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.
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Horses were imported for Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.
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Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of the prophet Nathan, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of the seer Iddo concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?