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Contemporary English Version

1 Kings 10:25

Year after year people came and brought gifts of silver and gold, as well as clothes, weapons, spices, horses, or mules.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - King;   Mule;   Silver;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arms, Military;   Beasts;   Holy Land;   Kings;   Mule, the;   Presents;   Silver;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mule;   Sabeans;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Israel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gift;   Mule;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Commerce;   Egypt;   Mizpah;   Silver;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ointment;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Government;   Israel;   Mule;   Sheba, Queen of;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gifts;   Mule;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hiram;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Chariot,;   Sol'omon;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Mule;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Armor;   Balsam;   Commerce;   King;   Mule;   Sacrifice;   Solomon;   Tax;   Trade;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ass;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Taxation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Every man would bring his annual tribute: items of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, and horses and mules.
Hebrew Names Version
They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
New Century Version
Every year those who came brought gifts of silver and gold, clothes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
New English Translation
Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.
Amplified Bible
Every man brought a gift [of tribute]: articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
New American Standard Bible
And they were bringing, everyone, a gift: articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, balsam oil, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of golde, and raiment, and armour, and sweete odours, horses & mules, from yeere to yeere.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they brought every man his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, a set amount year by year.
Complete Jewish Bible
Each one brought his present — articles of silver, articles of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses and mules; and this continued year after year.
Darby Translation
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armour, and spices, horses and mules, a rate year by year.
Easy-to-Read Version
Every year people came to see the king and brought gifts made from gold and silver, clothes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
George Lamsa Translation
And they brought every man his present, vessels of gold and vessels of silver, garments, armor, spices, horses, fancy chariots, and mules, year by year.
Good News Translation
Everyone who came brought him a gift—articles of silver and gold, robes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. This continued year after year.
Lexham English Bible
They were each bringing his gift; objects of silver and objects of gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. This used to happen year after year.
Literal Translation
and they were each one bringing his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a year by year matter.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they broughte him yearly euery man his present, vessels of syluer and golde, rayment and harnesse, spyces, horses and Mules.
American Standard Version
And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Bible in Basic English
And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by year.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And brought him euery man his present, vessels of siluer, & vessels of golde, rayment, harnesse, and sweete odours, and horses, and mules, yere by yere.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
King James Version (1611)
And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate yeere by yeere.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they brought every one their gifts, vessels of gold, and raiment, and stacte, and spices, and horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
English Revised Version
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Berean Standard Bible
Year after year, each visitor would bring his tribute: articles of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle men brouyten yiftis to hym, vessels of gold, and of siluer, clothis, and armeris of batel, and swete smellynge thingis, and horsis, and mulis, bi ech yeer.
Young's Literal Translation
and they are bringing each his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, the matter of a year in a year.
Update Bible Version
And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
World English Bible
They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
New King James Version
Each man brought his present: articles of silver and gold, garments, armor, spices, horses, and mules, at a set rate year by year.
New Living Translation
Year after year everyone who visited brought him gifts of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
New Life Bible
Every one of them brought his gift. They brought objects of silver and gold, clothing, objects for fighting in battle, spices, horses and donkeys, so much year by year.
New Revised Standard
Every one of them brought a present, objects of silver and gold, garments, weaponry, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, they, did bring every man his present - vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses and mules, - a rate of a year in a year.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And every one brought him presents, vessels of silver and of gold, garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules, every year.
Revised Standard Version
Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They brought every man his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.

Contextual Overview

14 Solomon received about twenty-five tons of gold a year. 15 The merchants and traders, as well as the kings of Arabia and rulers from Israel, also gave him gold. 16 Solomon made two hundred gold shields and used about seven and a half pounds of gold for each one. 17 He also made three hundred smaller gold shields, using almost four pounds for each one, and he put the shields in his palace in Forest Hall. 18 His throne was made of ivory and covered with pure gold. 19The back of the throne was rounded at the top, and it had armrests on each side. There was a statue of a lion on both sides of the throne, and there was a statue of a lion at both ends of each of the six steps leading up to the throne. No other throne in the world was like Solomon's. 21 Since silver was almost worthless in those days, everything was made of gold, even the cups and dishes used in Forest Hall. 22 Solomon had a lot of seagoing ships. Every three years he sent them out with Hiram's ships to bring back gold, silver, and ivory, as well as monkeys and peacocks. 23 He was the richest and wisest king in the world. 24 People from every nation wanted to hear the wisdom God had given him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

every man: 1 Kings 10:10, Judges 3:15, 1 Samuel 10:27, 2 Samuel 8:2, 2 Samuel 8:10, 2 Chronicles 26:8, Job 42:11, Psalms 72:10, Psalms 72:15, Isaiah 36:16, Matthew 2:11

and mules: 1 Kings 1:33, 1 Kings 18:5, Genesis 36:24, Ezra 2:66, Esther 8:10, Esther 8:14, Isaiah 66:20, Ezekiel 27:14

a rate: 2 Kings 17:4, 2 Chronicles 9:24

Reciprocal: Genesis 43:11 - carry down 1 Kings 4:26 - forty thousand 2 Kings 20:13 - precious things 1 Chronicles 18:2 - brought gifts 2 Chronicles 17:5 - presents 2 Chronicles 32:23 - presents Psalms 68:29 - shall Isaiah 39:2 - precious things Revelation 18:13 - cinnamon

Cross-References

Genesis 10:21
Shem's descendants had their own languages, tribes, and land. He was the older brother of Japheth and the ancestor of the tribes of Eber. Shem was the ancestor of Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. Aram was the ancestor of Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. Arpachshad was the father of Shelah and the grandfather of Eber, whose first son was named Peleg, because it was during his time that tribes divided up the earth. Eber's second son was Joktan. Joktan was the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. Their land reached from Mesha in the direction of Sephar, the hill country in the east.
Genesis 10:32
This completes the list of Noah's descendants. After the flood their descendants became nations and spread all over the world.
Deuteronomy 32:8
that God Most High gave land to every nation. He assigned a guardian angel to each of them,
1 Chronicles 1:19
Eber named his first son Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided into tribal regions. Eber's second son was Joktan,
Acts 17:26
From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they brought every man his present,.... To recommend them, and introduce them into his presence:

vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, and horses, and mules, a rate year by year; everyone brought according to the commodities of his country; and they did yearly, out of great respect to him, and in veneration of him for his wisdom, and for the advantages they received by his wise counsels and instructions; besides, it was the custom of the eastern countries not to pay a visit, especially to great personages, without carrying a present.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His present - i. e., his tribute (1 Kings 4:21 note). A statement illustrated by Egyptian and Assyrian sculptures on slabs and obelisks. Tribute-bearers from the subject kings, bring not only the fixed rate of bullion, but a tribute in kind besides, consisting of the most precious products of their respective countries.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 25. They brought every man his present — This means tribute; and it shows us of what sort that tribute was, viz., vessels of gold and silver, probably ingots; garments of very rich stuffs; armour, for little of this kind was ever made in Judea; spices, which doubtless sold well in that country; horses, which were very rare; and mules, the most necessary animal for all the purposes of life.


 
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