iSee Num. 25:11
1 Kings 9:14
14Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of gold. 1 Kings 9:28
28And they went to bOphir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.1 Kings 10:10
10 cThen she gave the king 120 talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of gold, and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again came such an abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. 1 Kings 14:21-22
Rehoboam Reigns in Judah
21 eNow Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, fthe city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. gHis mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. 22 hAnd Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they iprovoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.1 Kings 14:27
27and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.2 Chronicles 9:11
11And the king made from the algum wood jsupports for the house of the Lord and for the king’s house, lyres also and harps for the singers. There never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.2 Chronicles 9:15-21
15King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of beaten gold went into each shield. 16And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; l300 shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. 17The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold. 18The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests, 19while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made for any kingdom. 20All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon. 21For the king’s ships went to mTarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ▼▼Or baboons
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