Ecclesiastes 2:8
"I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts."
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- 1 Kings 10:10
"And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 9:28
"And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 19:35
"I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?"
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 10:14
"Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,"
Read in chapter → - 1 Chronicles 25:6
"All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 14:21
"And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 9:14
"And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold."
Read in chapter → - 1 Chronicles 25:1
"Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:"
Read in chapter → - Daniel 3:15
"Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?"
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 14:27
"And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house."
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