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Day 148: Solomon's Wealth (2023)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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The Queen of Sheba and Solomon

Solomon built the inner court with three courses of hewn stones and one course of cedar beams. The weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold. He made two hundred large shields of beaten gold, six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into each shield. Silver was not considered as anything in the days of King Solomon. For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes and peacocks.

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