Viewing verse 21 of 1 Kings 10 (with context)
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¶ Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.**
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.*
¶ 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.*
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.*
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
¶ And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.*