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Chapter 9
- 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.
- 9:2
- And Solomon told her all her
questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her
not.
- 9:3
- And when the queen of Sheba had
seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
- 9:4
- 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.
- 9:5
- 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:
- 9:6
- 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.
- 9:7
- Happy are thy men, and happy are
these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy
wisdom.
- 9:8
- 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.
- 9:9
- 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.
- 9:10
- And the servants also of Huram,
and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought
algum trees and precious stones.
- 9:11
- 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.
- 9:12
- 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.
- 9:13
- Now the weight of gold that came
to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents
of gold;
- 9:14
- Beside that which chapmen and
merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the
country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
- 9:15
- And king Solomon made two hundred
targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one
target.
- 9:16
- 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.
- 9:17
- Moreover the king made a great
throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
- 9:18
- 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:
- 9:19
- 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.
- 9:20
- 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.
- 9:21
- 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.
- 9:22
- And king Solomon passed all the
kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
- 9:23
- And all the kings of the earth
sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put
in his heart.
- 9:24
- 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.
- 9:25
- 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.
- 9:26
- And he reigned over all the kings
from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the
border of Egypt.
- 9:27
- 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.
- 9:28
- And they brought unto Solomon
horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
- 9:29
- 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?
- 9:30
- And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem
over all Israel forty years.
- 9:31
- 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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