Verse 17
2 Chronicles 9:17
Darby Translation
17
And the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּ֧עַשׂ הַ/מֶּ֛לֶךְ כִּסֵּא שֵׁ֖ן גָּד֑וֹל וַ/יְצַפֵּ֖/הוּ זָהָ֥ב טָהֽוֹר
English Translation
And the king made a great throne and covered it with pure gold.
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Chapter 9 Context
1
And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and came to Jerusalem to prove Solomon with eni...
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And Solomon explained to her all she spoke of, and there was not a thing hidden from Solomon that he...
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And when the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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and the food of his table, and the deportment of his servants, and the order of service of his atten...
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And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thine affairs and of...
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but I gave no credit to their words, until I came and mine eyes had seen; and behold, the half of th...
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Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, who stand continually before thee and hear thy...
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Blessed be Jehovah thy God (Elohim), who delighted in thee, to set thee on his throne, to be king to...
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9
And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in very great abundance, and...
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10
(And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought s...
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11
And the king made of the sandal-wood stairs for the house of Jehovah, and for the king's house, and...
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12
And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides what she had...
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And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gol...
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besides [what] dealers and merchants brought, and [what] all the kings of Arabia and the governors o...
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15
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold, he applied six hundred [shekels] of beaten...
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and three hundred shields of beaten gold, he applied three hundred [shekels] of gold to one shield;...
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17
And the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold;
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and the throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold fastened to the throne; and there were arms o...
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and twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the...
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20
And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest...
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21
For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: once in three years came the ships...
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22
And king Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
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And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God (Elohim...
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And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and clothing, armour,...
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And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he p...
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And he ruled over all the kings from the river as far as the land of the Philistines, and up to the...
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And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he as the sycamores that are in the...
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And they brought to Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
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And the rest of the acts of Solomon first and last, are they not written in the words of Nathan the...
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And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father; and Rehoboa...
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