2Chronicles: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 .
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And Solomon told her all her questions :
and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not .
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And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon ,
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 ;
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 .
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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 :
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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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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 Yisra #
el #,
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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And the servants also of Huram ,
and the servants of Solomon ,
which brought gold from Ophir ,
brought algum trees and precious stones .
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And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD ,
and to the kings palace ,
and harps and psalteries for singers :
and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah .
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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 .
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Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold ;
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Beside that which chapmen #
H8446 and merchants brought .
And all the kings of Arabia Arab #
and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon .
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And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold :
six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target .
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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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Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory ,
and overlaid it with pure gold .
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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 sh @
nayim #
lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps ma #
alah #.
There was not the like made in any kingdom .
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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 kings 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 .
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And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon ,
to hear his wisdom ,
that 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 raiment ,
harness ,
and spices ,
horses ,
and mules ,
a rate year by year .
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And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots ,
and twelve sh @
nayim #
thousand horsemen ;
whom he bestowed in the chariot cities ,
and with the king at Jerusalem .
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And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines ,
and to the border of Egypt .
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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 .
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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 ?
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And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty #
arba #
iym #
years .
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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 .