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of greater value than the gifts she had given him. Then she and all her attendants returned to their own land.
Each year Solomon received about 25 tons of gold. This did not include
the additional revenue he received from merchants and traders. All the
kings of Arabia and the governors of the provinces also brought gold and
silver to Solomon.
King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than 15 pounds. He also made 300 smaller shields of hammered
gold, each weighing more than 71/2 pounds. The king placed these shields
in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
Then the king made a huge throne, decorated with ivory and overlaid
with pure gold. The throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold. There
were armrests on both sides of the seat, and the figure of a lion stood on
each side of the throne. There were also twelve other lions, one standing
on each end of the six steps. No other throne in all the world could be
compared with it!
All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were solid gold, as were all the utensils in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. They were not made of silver,
for silver was considered worthless in Solomon’s day!
The king had a fleet of trading ships of Tarshish manned by the sailors
sent by Hiram. Once every three years the ships returned, loaded with
gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
So King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king on earth.
Kings from every nation came to consult him and to hear the wisdom God
had given him. Year after year everyone who visited brought him gifts of
silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his horses and chariots, and he had 12,000
horses. He stationed some of them in the chariot cities, and some near
him in Jerusalem. He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River
in the north to the land of the Philistines and the border of Egypt in the
south. The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in
the foothills of Judah. Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and
many other countries.
The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, from beginning to end, are recorded in The Record of Nathan the Prophet, and The Prophecy of Ahijah
from Shiloh, and also in The Visions of Iddo the Seer, concerning Jeroboam
son of Nebat. Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years.
When he died, he was buried in the City of David, named for his father.
Then his son Rehoboam became the next king.
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