The Old Testament
| Book | Chapter | Verse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Kings | 10 | (21) And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. | |
| I Kings | 10 | (22) For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. | |
| I Kings | 10 | (23) So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. | |
| I Kings | 10 | (24) And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. | |
| I Kings | 10 | (25) And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. | |
| I Kings | 10 | (26) And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. | |
| I Kings | 10 | (27) And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the vale, for abundance. | |
| I Kings | 10 | (28) And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. | |
| I Kings | 10 | (29) And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means. | |
| I Kings | 11 | (1) BUT KING Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; | |
| I Kings | 11 | (2) Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. | |
| I Kings | 11 | (3) And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. | |
| I Kings | 11 | (4) For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. | |
| I Kings | 11 | (5) For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. | |
| I Kings | 11 | (6) And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. | |
| I Kings | 11 | (7) Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. | |
| I Kings | 11 | (8) And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. | |
| I Kings | 11 | (9) And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, | |
| I Kings | 11 | (10) And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded. | |
| I Kings | 11 | (11) Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant. | |