1 Kings 10:18

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

And the king made a great throne of ivory, - and overlaid it with gold from Uphaz.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The king also made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with fine gold.

Hebrew Names Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

King James Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

English Standard Version
The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with the finest gold.

New Century Version
The king built a large throne of ivory and covered it with fine gold.

New English Translation
The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

Amplified Bible
Also the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with the finest gold.

New American Standard Bible
Moreover, the king made a large throne of ivory and overlaid it with fine gold.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the King made a great throne of yuorie, and couered it with the best golde.

Legacy Standard Bible
Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.

Contemporary English Version
His throne was made of ivory and covered with pure gold.

Complete Jewish Bible
The king also made a large throne of ivory and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Darby Translation
And the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with refined gold:

Easy-to-Read Version
King Solomon also built a large throne with ivory decorations. It was covered with pure gold.

George Lamsa Translation
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with gold from Ophir.

Good News Translation
He also had a large throne made. Part of it was covered with ivory and the rest of it was covered with the finest gold.

Lexham English Bible
The king also made a large ivory throne, and he overlaid it with fine gold.

Literal Translation
And the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the kynge made a greate seate of Yuery, and ouerlayed it with ye most precious golde.

American Standard Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Bible in Basic English
Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the king made a great seate of iuorie, and couered it with the best golde.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

King James Version (1611)
Moreouer the king made a great throne of yuorie, and ouerlaide it with the best gold.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the king made a great ivory throne, and gilded it with pure gold.

English Revised Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Berean Standard Bible
Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also kyng Salomon made a greet trone of yuer, and clothide it with ful fyn gold;

Young's Literal Translation
And the king maketh a great throne of ivory, and overlayeth it with refined gold;

Update Bible Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

World English Bible
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

New King James Version
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

New Living Translation
Then the king made a huge throne, decorated with ivory and overlaid with fine gold.

New Life Bible
Then the king made a large throne of ivory and covered it with fine gold.

New Revised Standard
The king also made a great ivory throne, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: and overlaid it with the finest gold.

Revised Standard Version
The king also made a great ivory throne, and overlaid it with the finest gold.

THE MESSAGE
The king built a massive throne of ivory accented with a veneer of gold. The throne had six steps leading up to it, its back shaped like an arch. The armrests on each side were flanked by lions. Lions, twelve of them, were placed at either end of the six steps. There was no throne like it in any of the surrounding kingdoms.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ And it came to pass that, the weight of the gold which came in unto Solomon in one year, was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold; ¹⁵ besides the tribute of the subjugated, and of the travelling merchants, - and of all the kings of Arabia, and the pashas of the land. ¹⁶ And King Solomon made two hundred shields, of beaten gold, six hundred shekels of gold, laid he upon one shield; ¹⁷ and three hundred bucklers, of beaten gold, one hundred and fifty shekels of gold, laid he upon one buckler, - and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. ¹⁸ And the king made a great throne of ivory, - and overlaid it with gold from Uphaz. ¹⁹ There were, six steps, to the throne, and there was, a circular top, to the throne, behind it, and there were supports on this side and on that, unto the place of the seat, - with two lions standing beside the supports; ²⁰ 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. ²¹ And, all the drinking vessels of King Solomon, were of gold, and, all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon, were of pure gold, - none was of silver, it was accounted in the days of Solomon, as nothing. ²² For, a fleet of Tarshish, had the king, at sea, with the fleet of Hiram, - once in three years, came in the fleet of Tarshish, bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks. ²³ So King Solomon became greater than any of the kings of the earth, - for riches and for wisdom.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a great throne: 2 Chronicles 9:17-19, Psalms 45:6, Psalms 110:1, Psalms 122:5, Hebrews 1:3, Hebrews 1:8, Revelation 20:11

ivory: 1 Kings 10:22, 1 Kings 22:39, Psalms 45:8, Ezekiel 27:6, Amos 6:4, Revelation 18:12

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:7 - for the throne Esther 5:1 - sat Song of Solomon 7:4 - ivory

Cross-References

Genesis 10:16
and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite;

Genesis 10:17
and the Hivite and the Arkite, and the Sinite:

Numbers 34:8
From Mount Hor, ye shall draw a line to the entering in of Hamath, - and the extension of the boundary shall be towards Zedad:

Joshua 18:22
and Beth-arabah and Zemaraim, and Bethel,

2 Samuel 8:9
And, when Tou king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the forces of Hadadezer,

2 Kings 17:24
And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avvah, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and caused them to dwell in the cities of Samaria, instead of the sons of Israel, - so they took possession of Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

2 Kings 17:30
So then, the men of Babylon, made Succoth-benoth, and, the men of Cuth, made Nergal, and, the men of Hamath, made Ashima:

2 Chronicles 13:4
And Abijah stood up upon Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, - and said, Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!

Isaiah 10:9
Is not, Calno, like Carchemish? Is not, Hamath, like Arpad? Is not, Samaria, like Damascus?

Ezekiel 27:8
the inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad, Became rowers for thee, - Thine own skilled men O Tyre, were within thee, They were thy sailors:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory,.... To sit on and judge his people; and ivory being white, may denote the purity, justice, and equity with which he judged; the white throne in Revelation 20:11 may be an allusion to this; the ivory he had from Tarshish, 1 Kings 10:22

and overlaid it with the best gold; for the greater splendour and majesty of it; not that he covered it all over, for then the ivory would not be seen, but interlined it, or studded it with it, whereby it appeared the more beautiful and magnificent. Such a throne of gold and ivory was decreed to Caesar by the Romans p.

p Appian. Alex. l. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is, on the whole, probable that the substance of the throne was wood, and that the ivory, cut into thin slabs, and probably carved in patterns, was applied externally as a veneer. This is found to have been the practice in Assyria. The gold was probably not placed over the ivory, but covered other parts of the throne.