Ecclesiastes 2:8

He gathered silver, gold, royal treasure, and every delight, including singers and music. He indulged in every luxury and pleasure available to a king.

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• 1 Kgs 10:10Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was such an abundance of spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
• 2 Sam 19:35I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
• 1 Kgs 9:28They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
• 1 Kgs 10:14The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,
• 1 Chr 25:1Additionally, David and the commanders of the army set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy with the accompaniment of lyres, harps, and cymbals. The following is the list of the men who performed this service:
• Dan 3:15Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”
• 1 Chr 25:6All these were under the direction of their fathers for the music of the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the direction of the king.
• 2 Chr 9:15–21King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.
• Dan 3:7Therefore, as soon as all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, the people of every nation and language would fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
• 1 Kgs 9:14And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
• 1 Kgs 14:27Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
• 1 Kgs 10:21All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
• Ps 150:3–5Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.
• Amos 6:5You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
• 1 Kgs 14:21–22Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
• Ezra 2:65in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 200 male and female singers.
• 2 Chr 9:11The king made the algum wood into steps for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had anything like them been seen in the land of Judah.)
• Job 21:11–12They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
• Dan 3:5As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.

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