²⁰ Twelve lions were also standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for all the other kingdoms. ²¹ Now 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 was of silver; it was not considered ^[a]valuable in the days of Solomon. ²² For ^(A)the king had at sea the ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.