1 Kings 10:20-22

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²⁰ Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps, one at each end. Nothing like it had ever been made in any other kingdom.

²¹ All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon^(A) were pure gold.^(B) There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time, ²² for the king had ships of Tarshish^(C) at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.^[a](D)