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Chapter 9 |
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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. |
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Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually
before thee, and hear thy wisdom. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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| 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. |
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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. |
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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 sycamore
trees that are in the low plains in abundance. |
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28 | And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt,
and out of all lands. |
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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. |
