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King James Version (1611 Edition)

1 Kings 10:20

And twelue lions stood there on the one side and on the other vpon the sixe steps: there was not the like made in any kingdome.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - King;   Lion;   Solomon;   Throne;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sabeans;   Throne;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - King;   Solomon;   Throne;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Israel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Throne;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Commerce;   Ivory;   Lion;   Mizpah;   Phoenice;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - House of the Forest of Lebanon;   Palace;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dial;   Government;   Israel;   Ivory;   Sheba, Queen of;   Solomon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hiram;   Tyre;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Commerce;   Forest;   King;   Like;   Temple;   Throne;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Numbers and Numerals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps, one at each end. Nothing like it had ever been made in any other kingdom.
Hebrew Names Version
Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.
New Century Version
Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any other kingdom.
New English Translation
There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom.
Amplified Bible
Twelve lions stood there, one on either end of each of the six steps; there was nothing like it made for any other kingdom.
New American Standard Bible
Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And there stoode twelue lions on the sixe steps on either side: there was not the like made in any kingdome.
Legacy Standard Bible
Twelve lions were also standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for all the other kingdoms.
Complete Jewish Bible
and twelve more lions standing on each side of the six steps. Nothing like it had ever been made in any kingdom.
Darby Translation
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
There were also two lions on each of the six steps, one at each end. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom.
George Lamsa Translation
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps; there was not the like in any kingdom.
Lexham English Bible
Twelve lions were standing there, six on each of the six steps on either side; nothing like this was made for any of the kingdoms.
Literal Translation
and twelve lions were standing on the six steps, on this side and on that; there was not the like made in any kingdom.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and twolue lyons stode vpon the sixe steppes on both the sydes. Soch one hath not bene made in eny kyngdome.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
And twelve lions were placed on the one side and on the other side on the six steps: there was nothing like it in any kingdom.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there stoode twelue lions on the steppes, sixe on a syde: There was none lyke worke seene in any kingdome.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and twelve lions standing there on the six steps on either side: it was not so done in any other kingdom.
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and twelue litil liouns stondynge on sixe grees on this side and on that side; siche a werk was not maad in alle rewmes.
Young's Literal Translation
and twelve lions are standing there on the six steps, on this [side] and on that; it hath not been made so for any kingdom.
Update Bible Version
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
World English Bible
Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
New King James Version
Twelve lions stood there, one on each side of the six steps; nothing like this had been made for any other kingdom.
New Living Translation
There were also twelve other lions, one standing on each end of the six steps. No other throne in all the world could be compared with it!
New Life Bible
Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one on each end. Nothing like it was made for any other king.
New Revised Standard
while twelve lions were standing, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made in any kingdom.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, twelve lions, were standing there, upon the six steps, on this side and on that, - there had never been made the like, for any of the kingdoms.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And twelve little lions stood upon the six steps, on the one side and on the other: there was no such work made in any kingdom.
Revised Standard Version
while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom.

Contextual Overview

14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one yere, was sixe hundred, threescore & six talents of gold, 15 Besides that he had of the merchant men, and of the traffique of the spicemerchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the gouernours of the countrey. 16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten golde: sixe hundred shekels of golde went to one target. 17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold, three pound of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the house of the forrest of Lebanon. 18 Moreouer the king made a great throne of yuorie, and ouerlaide it with the best gold. 19 The throne had sixe steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stayes on either side on the place of the seate, and two lyons stood beside the stayes. 20 And twelue lions stood there on the one side and on the other vpon the sixe steps: there was not the like made in any kingdome. 21 And all king Solomons drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forrest of Lebanon were of pure gold, none were of siluer, it was nothing accounted of in the dayes of Solomon. 22 For the king had at sea a nauie of Tharshish, with the nauie of Hiram: once in three yeeres came the nauie of Tharshish, bringing golde and siluer, yuorie, and apes, and peacocks. 23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth, for riches and for wisedome.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lions: Genesis 49:9, Numbers 23:24, Numbers 24:9, Revelation 5:5

the like made: Heb. so made

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 2:4 - I builded

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sonnes of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Iaphet: and vnto them were sonnes borne after the Flood.
Genesis 10:6
And the sonnes of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is saide, Euen as Nimrod the mightie hunter before the LORD.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps,.... There was a lion on each side of every step, a symbol of royal power, as before observed; so the Egyptians placed lions under the throne of Orus r:

there was not the like made in any kingdom; for the matter and form of it, for its grandeur and magnificence; there was none at least at that time, whatever has been since; for this is the first throne of ivory we read of.

r Hori Apoll. Hieroglyph, l. 1. c. 17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Solomon’s throne, as described, is certainly grander than any of which we have a representation, either in Assyria or Egypt. Much more, then, would it transcend the thrones in inferior kingdoms.


 
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