1 Kings 10:18
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 10:22For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram. Once every three years the navy of Tarshish came, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
2 Chronicles 9:17Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
Psalms 45:8All thy garments [smell of] myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.
Psalms 122:5For there thrones are set for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Amos 6:4who lay upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall,
Hebrews 1:8But toward the Son, Thy throne, O God, is into the age of the age. The scepter of thy kingdom is a scepter of straightness.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 10:15-29
Solomon's Wealth. ( b. c. 990.) 14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold, 15 Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country. 16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. 17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put… Read the whole commentary →