10:14-17
Gold features prominently in this section. The amounts of gold seem enormous, but are comparable with figures found in other records of the region and time. 666 is of course the number of the beast in Revelation, but that is probably coincidental. The gold came from far and wide. Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold. One might comment that he had nothing better to do with the gold, and is just accumulating wealth for its open sake.
10:18-22
Solomon also made “a great throne”. We get more details of the things he did with the gold. We are also told about the size of his merchant navy, and the journeys they went on. On these journeys they brought back gold, silver and ivory, along with apes and baboons. Again I note that none of this is actually achieving much good.
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