009:018 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays. 009:019 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. 009:020 All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. 009:021 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 009:022 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. 009:023 All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. 009:024 They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. 009:025 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. 009:026 He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. 009:027 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance. 009:028 They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all lands. 009:029 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat? 009:030 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 009:031 Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. 010:001 Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. 010:002 It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. 010:003 They sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, 010:004 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you. 010:005 He said to them, Come again to me after three days. The people departed. 010:006 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before