'Ivory' in the Bible
Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.
For the king had at sea the ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did and the ivory house which he built and all the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
For the king had ships which went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.
All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.
“His hands are rods of goldSet with beryl;His abdomen is carved ivoryInlaid with sapphires.
“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,Your eyes like the pools in HeshbonBy the gate of Bath-rabbim;Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,Which faces toward Damascus.
“Of oaks from Bashan they have made your oars;With ivory they have inlaid your deck of boxwood from the coastlands of Cyprus.
The sons of Dedan were your traders. Many coastlands were your market; ivory tusks and ebony they brought as your payment.
“I will also smite the winter house together with the summer house;The houses of ivory will also perishAnd the great houses will come to an end,”Declares the Lord.
Those who recline on beds of ivoryAnd sprawl on their couches,And eat lambs from the flockAnd calves from the midst of the stall,
cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and every article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron and marble,