1 Kings 10:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And 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 nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver; it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And 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 nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

Common English Bible

²¹ All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were made of gold, and all the items in the Forest of Lebanon Palace were made of pure gold, not silver, since even silver wasn’t considered good enough in Solomon’s time!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Moreover, all the vessels from which king Solomon would drink were of gold. And all the items in the house of the forest of Lebanon were of the purest gold. There was no silver, nor was any accounting made of silver in the days of Solomon.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Moreover all the vessels, out of which king Solomon drank, were of gold: and all the furniture of the house of the forest of Libanus was of most pure gold: there was no silver, nor was any account made of it in the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 10:21 Cross References

1 Kings 10:17

He made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

1 Kings 10:20

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.

1 Kings 10:22

For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

1 Kings 7:2

He built the House of the Forest of the Lebanon one hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, built on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

Esther 1:7

Drinks were served in golden goblets, goblets of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king.

Job 28:1

“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place for gold to be refined.

Zechariah 9:3

Tyre has built itself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt of the streets.

Deuteronomy 17:17

And he must not acquire many wives for himself or else his heart will turn away; also silver and gold he must not acquire in great quantity for himself.