And when
the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon,
she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at
Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels
that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and
precious stones: and when she was come to
Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in
her heart.
02 And Solomon told her all her questions: and
there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told
her not.
03 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the
wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had
built,
04 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of
his servants, and the attendance of his
ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers
also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which
he went up into the house of the Lord; there was
no more spirit in her.
05 And she said to the king, It was a true report
which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and
of thy wisdom:
06 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I
came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the
one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not
told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I
heard.
07 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy
servants, which stand continually before thee,
and hear thy wisdom.
08 Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted
in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for
the Lord thy God: because thy God loved Israel,
to establish them for ever, therefore made he
thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
09 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty
talents of gold, and of spices great abundance,
and precious stones: neither was there any such
spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
10 And the servants also of Huram, and the
servants of Solomon, which brought gold from
Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
11 And the king made of the algum trees terraces
to the house of the Lord, and to the king's
palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and
there were none such seen before in the land of
Judah.
12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba
all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that
which she had brought unto the king. So she
turned, and went away to her own land, she and
her servants.
13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in
one year was six hundred and threescore and six
talents of gold;
14 Beside that which chapmen and merchants
brought. And all the kings of Arabia and
governors of the country brought gold and silver
to Solomon.
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15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of
beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold
went to one target.
16 And three hundred shields made he of beaten
gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one
shield. And the king put them in the house of the
forest of Lebanon.
17 Moreover the king made a great throne of
ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
18 And there were six steps to the throne, with a
footstool of gold, which were fastened to the
throne, and stays on each side of the sitting
place, and two lions standing by the stays:
19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side
and on the other upon the six steps. There was
not the like made in any kingdom.
20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon
were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of
the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none
were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of
in the days of Solomon.
21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the
servants of Huram: every three years once came
the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver,
ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the
earth in riches and wisdom.
23 And all the kings of the earth sought the
presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God
had put in his heart.
24 And they brought every man his present,
vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and
raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules,
a rate year by year.
25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for
horses and chariots, and twelve thousand
horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities,
and with the king at Jerusalem.
26 And he reigned over all the kings from the
river even unto the land of the Philistines, and
to the border of Egypt.
27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as
stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore
trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of
Egypt, and out of all lands.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and
last, are they not written in the book of Nathan
the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the
Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer
against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all
Israel forty years.
31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was
buried in the city of David his father: and
Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
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