Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Kings 10:20
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Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.
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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 like made in any kingdom.
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Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom.
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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 like made in any kingdom.
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1 Kings 10
18 Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
19 The throne had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, with a lion standing beside each armrest.
20 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.
21 All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
22 For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
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