King James Version (KJV)
2 Chronicles 9:19
“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.”
Verse in context — 2 Chronicles 9
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, [which were] fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:
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.
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 [were of] silver; it was [not] any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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Solomon’s reign and Judah’s history until the Babylonian exile.
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