And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

So Solomon made all these vessels, a very great store of them, and the weight of the brass used was not measured.

Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.

Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;

Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?