1Kgs 10
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And the queen of Saba heard of the name of Solomon, and the name of the Lord, and
she came to try him with riddles.
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And she came to Jerusalem with a very great Gr. force train; and there came camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and
precious stones:
and she came in to Solomon, and told him all that was in her heart.
3
And Solomon Gr. related to her all her words answered all her questions: and there was not a question overlooked by the king
which
he did not answer her.
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And the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he built,
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and the provision of Solomon and the sitting of his attendants, and the standing of
his servants, and his raiment, and his cup-bearers, and his whole-burnt-offering which
he offered in the house of the Lord, and she was Or, in ecstasy utterly amazed.
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And she said to king Solomon, It was a true report which I heard in my land of Gr. word your words and your wisdom.
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But I believed not them that told me, until I came and my eyes saw: and, behold, the
words as they reported to me are not the half: you have Gr. added good things to them exceeded in goodness all the report
which I heard in my land.
8
Blessed are your wives, blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually,
who hear all your wisdom.
9
Blessed be the Lord your God, who has taken pleasure in you, to set you upon the throne
of Israel, because the Lord loved Israel to establish him for ever; and he has made
you king over them, to execute judgement with justice, and in their causes.
10
And she gave to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and very many spices,
and Gr. precious stone precious stones: there had not come any other spices so abundant as those which the
queen of Saba gave to king Solomon.
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And the ship of Chiram which brought the gold from Suphir, brought very much hewn
timber and precious stones.
12
And the king made the hewn timber into buttresses of the house of the Lord and the
king’s house, and lyres and harps for singers: such hewn timber had not come upon
the earth, nor have been seen anywhere until this day.
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And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she desired, whatever she asked,
besides all that he had given her Of his royal bounty, A. V. by the hand of king Solomon: and she returned, and came into
her own land, she and
her servants.
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And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six
talents of gold.
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Besides the tributes of them that were subjects, both merchants and all the kings
of the country beyond the river, and of the princess of the land.
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And Solomon made three hundred spears of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold
were upon one spear.
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And three hundred Gr. arms shields of beaten gold: and three pounds of gold were in one shield: and the king
put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
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And the king made a great ivory throne, and gilded it with pure gold.
19
The throne had six steps, and calves in bold relief to the throne behind it, and side-pieces
on either hand of the place of the seat, and two lions standing by the side-pieces,
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and twelve lions standing there on the six steps on either side: it was not so done
in any other kingdom.
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And all the vessels made by Solomon were of gold, and the lavers were golden, and
all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of Lit. «shut up with god,’ a frequent phrase in Heb. and Gr. for
«pure gold;’ See 1
Ki 6:20 pure gold; there was no silver, for it was not accounted of in the days of Solomon.
22
For Solomon had a ship of Tharsis in the sea with the ships of Chiram: one ship came
to the king every three years out of Tharsis, laden with gold and silver, and Gr. turned wrought stones, and hewn stones.
LXX text not in Heb. has been left out. This was the arrangement of the This word more commonly means «spoil’ in the O.T.
provision which king Solomon fetched to build the house of the Lord, and the house
of the king, and the wall of Jerusalem, and the citadel; to fortify the city of David,
and Assur, and Magdal, and Gazer, and Baethoron the upper, and Jethermath, and all
the cities of the chariots, and all the cities of the horsemen, and the Gr. work fortification of Solomon which he purposed
to build in Jerusalem and in all the land,
so that none of the people should rule over him whom was left of the Chettite and
the Amorite, and the Pherezite, and the Chananite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite,
and the Gergesite, who were not of the children of Israel, their descendants who had
been left with him in the land, whom the children of Israel could not utterly destroy;
and Solomon Gr. reduced them to tribute made them tributaries until this day. But of the children of Israel Solomon made
nothing; for they were the warriors, and his servants and rulers, and captains of
the third order, and the captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.
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And Solomon increased beyond all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.
24
And all the kings of the earth sought the Gr. face presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which the Lord had put into his
heart.
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And they brought every one their gifts, vessels of gold, and raiment, and stacte,
and spices, and horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
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And Solomon had four thousand mares for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen:
and he put them in the cities of his chariots, and with the king in Jerusalem: (10:26AA) and he ruled over all the kings from
the river to the land of the Philistines, and
to the borders of Egypt.
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And the king made Gr. gave gold and silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as the sycamores in the
plain for multitude.
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And the goings forth of Solomon’s horsemen was also out of Egypt, and the king’s merchants
were of Thecue; and they received them out of Thecue at a price.
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And that which proceeded out of Egypt went up thus, even a chariot for a hundred shekels
of silver, and a horse for fifty shekels of silver: and thus for all the kings of
the Chettians, and the kings of Syria, they came out by sea.