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.
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.
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.
15 And
king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of
beaten gold went to one target.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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
sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
28 And
they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
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.
