Quotes about Luxury

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

All 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.

Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

All 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.

Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold.

I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!

and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—many concubines.