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Chapter 9 |
| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | And
Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon
which he told her not. |
| 3 | And when the queen of Sheba had seen the
wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 |
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: |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy
servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom. |
| 8 |
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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
| 15 | And king
Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten
gold went to one target. |
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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23 | And all the kings of
the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put
in his heart. |
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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. |
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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. |
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27 | And the king made silver
in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that are
in the low plains in abundance. |
| 28 | And they brought unto Solomon
horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands. |
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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. |
