15. And Sovereign Shelomoh made two hundred large shields of beaten gold – six hundred pieces of beaten gold went into each shield,
16. and three hundred shields of beaten gold – three hundred pieces of gold went into each shield. And the sovereign put them in the House of the Forest of Leḇanon.
17. And the sovereign made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with clean gold,
18. and six steps led to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne; and there were armrests on either side of the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the armrests.
19. And twelve lions were standing there, one on each side of the six steps. The like of it was not in any reign.
20. And all the drinking vessels of Sovereign Shelomoh were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Leḇanon were of refined gold – silver was reckoned of little value in the days of Shelomoh.
21. For the sovereign’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Ḥuram. Once in three years the ships of Tarshish came, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, apes, and baboons.
22. And Sovereign Shelomoh became greater than all the sovereigns of the earth in riches and wisdom.
23. And all the sovereigns of the earth sought the presence of Shelomoh to hear his wisdom, which Elohim had put in his heart.
24. And each man brought his present: objects of silver, and objects of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses and mules, the matter of a year by year.