Bible verse
Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.
2 Chronicles 9:19 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Chronicles 9.
15 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.
16 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
17 Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
18 The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, with a lion standing beside each armrest.
19 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.
20 All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
21 For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
22 So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
23 All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
KJV
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.
ASV
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.
ERV
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.
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