1 Kings 10:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ while twelve lions were standing, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made in any kingdom.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Twelve lions stood there, one on either end of each of the six steps; there was nothing like it ever made in any kingdom.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Another twelve lions stood on both sides of the six steps. No other kingdom had anything like this.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ with twelve little lions standing upon the six steps, on one side and the other. No similar work has been made, ever in any kingdom.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And twelve little lions stood upon the six steps on the one side and on the other. There was no such work made in any kingdom.

1 Kings 10:20 Cross References

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches down, he stretches out like a lion, like a lioness—who dares rouse him up?

1 Kings 10:19

The throne had six steps. The top of the throne was rounded in the back, and on each side of the seat were arm rests and two lions standing beside the arm rests,

1 Kings 10:21

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; none were of silver—it was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

Numbers 23:24

Look, a people rising up like a lioness and rousing itself like a lion! It does not lie down until it has eaten the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.”

Numbers 24:9

He crouched; he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, and cursed is everyone who curses you.”

Revelation 5:5

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”