1 Kings 10:21

And an king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold [as were those of Assyria and Babylon. This lavish display of wealth was characteristic of Oriental courts. Rawlinson quotes Chardin's description of the splendour of the court of Persia, " Tout est d'or massif ," etc; and adds, "Both Symes and Yule note a similar use of gold utensils by the king of Ava"], and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold [ סָגוּר ; see on 1 Kings 6:20 . LXX . χρυσίῳ συγκεκλεισμένα . This immense quantity of gold is quite paralleled in the accounts of profane writers. "Sardanapalus, when Nineveh was besieged, had 150 golden bedsteads, 150 golden tables, a million talents of gold, ten times as much silver, etc.. No less than 7170 talents of gold were used for the vessels and statues of the temple of Bel in Babylon.. Alexander's pillage of Ectabana was estimated at 120,000 talents of gold," etc. (Bähr, in loc .)]; none were of silver [Heb. none silver . The Marg; "there was no silver in them," i.e; they were unalloyed, is a misapprehension of the true meaning]: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.