Bible Verses about Gold and Silver
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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff
on 06/25/2026
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The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
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(The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)
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Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
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The LORD has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
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Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.
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“And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed.
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Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.”
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Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.”
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The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.
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The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
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Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold.
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These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze;
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Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
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Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
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Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
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Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.
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The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed.
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Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.
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“Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
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And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
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Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends.
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The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover.
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Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give you.
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There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.
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“Make a table of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.
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Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
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Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
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Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are.
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The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.
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Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.
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And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.
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Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.
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“Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them.
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Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.
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Have them use gold, and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.
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“Make the ephod of gold, and of blue, purple and scarlet yarn, and of finely twisted linen—the work of skilled hands.
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“Make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
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Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
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Then the LORD said to Moses,
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“When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the LORD a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them.
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Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
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All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the LORD.
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The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives.
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Receive the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the tent of meeting. It will be a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD, making atonement for your lives.”
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to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze,
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Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.”
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So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.
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He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
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So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold.
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From what you have, take an offering for the LORD. Everyone who is willing is to bring to the LORD an offering of gold, silver and bronze;
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All who were willing, men and women alike, came and brought gold jewelry of all kinds: brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments. They all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.
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They overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. They also overlaid the crossbars with gold.
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Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
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He overlaid it with pure gold, both inside and out, and made a gold molding around it.
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He cast four gold rings for it and fastened them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
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Then he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
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And he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it.
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He made the atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
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Then he made two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
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He made one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; at the two ends he made them of one piece with the cover.
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The cherubim had their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the cover.
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They made the table of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.
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Then they overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding around it.
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They also made around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
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They cast four gold rings for the table and fastened them to the four corners, where the four legs were.
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The rings were put close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.
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The poles for carrying the table were made of acacia wood and were overlaid with gold.
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And they made from pure gold the articles for the table—its plates and dishes and bowls and its pitchers for the pouring out of drink offerings.
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They made the lampstand of pure gold. They hammered out its base and shaft, and made its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them.
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Six branches extended from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.
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Three cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms were on one branch, three on the next branch and the same for all six branches extending from the lampstand.
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And on the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms.
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One bud was under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair—six branches in all.
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The buds and the branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
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They made its seven lamps, as well as its wick trimmers and trays, of pure gold.
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They made the lampstand and all its accessories from one talent of pure gold.
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They made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high —its horns of one piece with it.
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They overlaid the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.
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The total amount of the gold from the wave offering used for all the work on the sanctuary was 29 talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
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The silver obtained from those of the community who were counted in the census was 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—
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set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel ;
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for a female, set her value at thirty shekels ;
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for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels and of a female at ten shekels ;
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for a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels of silver and that of a female at three shekels of silver;
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for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels and of a female at ten shekels.
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His offering was one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each filled with the finest flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;
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one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
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These were the offerings of the Israelite leaders for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed: twelve silver plates, twelve silver sprinkling bowls and twelve gold dishes.
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Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each sprinkling bowl seventy shekels. Altogether, the silver dishes weighed two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
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The twelve gold dishes filled with incense weighed ten shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel. Altogether, the gold dishes weighed a hundred and twenty shekels.
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But Balaam answered them, “Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.
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So we have brought as an offering to the LORD the gold articles each of us acquired—armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
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The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
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and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,
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then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
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You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
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All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the LORD and must go into his treasury.”
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Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.
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When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
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Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the gold bar, his sons and daughters, his cattle, donkeys and sheep, his tent and all that he had, to the Valley of Achor.
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And he said, “I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder.” (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.)
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They answered, “We’ll be glad to give them.” So they spread out a garment, and each of them threw a ring from his plunder onto it.
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The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels, not counting the ornaments, the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains that were on their camels’ necks.
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Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.
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When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I solemnly consecrate my silver to the LORD for my son to make an image overlaid with silver. I will give it back to you.”
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So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol. And it was put in Micah’s house.
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The Philistines asked, “What guilt offering should we send to him?” They replied, “Five gold tumors and five gold rats, according to the number of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
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Make models of the tumors and of the rats that are destroying the country, and give glory to Israel’s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land.
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he sent his son Joram to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold and of bronze.
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King David dedicated these articles to the LORD, as he had done with the silver and gold from all the nations he had subdued:
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The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
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Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
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So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
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For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
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One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits—ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.
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The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.
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The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
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He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
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He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
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Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in the LORD’s temple: the golden altar; the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence;
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the lampstands of pure gold (five on the right and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary); the gold floral work and lamps and tongs;
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the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold sockets for the doors of the innermost room, the Most Holy Place, and also for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
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Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan—with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones—she came to Solomon and talked with him about all that she had on her mind.
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Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her.
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When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the palace he had built,
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the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at the temple of the LORD, she was overwhelmed.
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She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true.
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But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told me; in wisdom and wealth you have far exceeded the report I heard.
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How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
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Praise be to the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, he has made you king to maintain justice and righteousness.”
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And she gave the king 120 talents of gold, large quantities of spices, and precious stones. Never again were so many spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
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(Hiram’s ships brought gold from Ophir; and from there they brought great cargoes of almugwood and precious stones.
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The king used the almugwood to make supports for the temple of the LORD and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. So much almugwood has never been imported or seen since that day.)
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King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.
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The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,
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not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the territories.
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King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
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He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three minas of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
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Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with fine gold.
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The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them.
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Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom.
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All King Solomon’s goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon’s days.
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The king had a fleet of trading ships at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.
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King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.
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The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.
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Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift—articles of silver and gold, robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.
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Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses, which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
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The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills.
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After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
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The money brought into the temple was not spent for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets or any other articles of gold or silver for the temple of the LORD;
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it was paid to the workers, who used it to repair the temple.
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They did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty.
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The money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the temple of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
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About this time Hazael king of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.
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But Joash king of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his predecessors—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—and the gifts he himself had dedicated and all the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of the LORD and of the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.
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In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
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He carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
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So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
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So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
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At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
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As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the LORD.
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he sent his son Hadoram to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold, of silver and of bronze.
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King David dedicated these articles to the LORD, as he had done with the silver and gold he had taken from all these nations: Edom and Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and Amalek.
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“I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.