1 Kings 10
The Queen of Sheba
Visits Solomon |
2 Chr. 9.1-12 |
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And when the queen of Sheba Mt.
12.42 · Lk.
11.31 heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of
the LORD, she came to prove him with hard
questions.
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And she came to Jerusalem with a very
great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and
precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with
him of all that was in her heart.
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And Solomon told her all her questions:
there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her
not.
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And when the queen of Sheba had seen all
Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
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and the meat of his table, and the
sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and
their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went
up unto the house of the LORD; there was no
more spirit in her.
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And she said to the king, It was a true
report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy
wisdom.
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Howbeit I believed not the words, until I
came, and mine eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half was
not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I
heard.
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Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
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Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of
Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever,
therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
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And she gave the king a hundred and
twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious
stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which
the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
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And the navy also of Hiram, that
brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug
trees, and precious stones.
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And the king made of the almug trees
pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the
king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no
such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
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And king Solomon gave unto the queen of
Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went
to her own country, she and her servants.
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Solomon's Riches and
Fame |
2 Chr. 9.13-24 |
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Now the weight of gold that came to
Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of
gold,
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besides that he had of the
merchantmen, and of the traffic of the spice merchants, and of all
the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
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And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to
one target.
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And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pounds of gold went to one shield: and
the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
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Moreover, the king made a great throne of
ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
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The throne had six steps, and the top of
the throne was round behind: and there were stays on
either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside 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.
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And all king Solomon's drinking vessels 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 nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
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For the king had at sea a navy of
Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy
of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and
peacocks.
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So king Solomon exceeded all the kings
of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
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And all the earth sought to Solomon, to
hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
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And they brought every man his present,
vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and
spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
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Solomon's Trade in
Horses and Chariots |
2 Chr. 1.14 · 28.14 |
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And Solomon gathered together chariots
and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen, 1 Kgs. 4.26 whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the
king at Jerusalem.
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And the king made silver to be in
Jerusalem as stones, Deut. 17.17 and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
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And Solomon had horses brought out of
Egypt, Deut. 17.16 and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn
at a price.
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And a chariot came up and went out of
Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a
hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for
the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their
means.
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