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I Kings
Chapter 10
1
And when the queen of Sheba
heard
of the fame of Solomon
concerning
the name of Jehovah/God,
she
came to prove him with hard questions.
2
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/'right lobe'/thinking.
3
And Solomon told her all her questions
there
was not any thing hid from the king,
which
he told her not.
4
And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom,
and
the house that he had built, 5
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 Jehovah/God;
'it
took the breath {ruwach} out of her'
{idiom: literally 'there was no more spirit/breath in her.
6
And she said to the king,
It
was a true report that I heard in my own land
of
your acts and of your wisdom. 7
Howbeit
I believed not the words, until I came,
and
my eyes had seen it
and,
behold, the half was not told me . . .
your
wisdom and prosperity exceeds
the
fame which I heard.
8
Happy are your men,
happy
are these your servants,
who
stand continually before you,
and
who hear your wisdom.
9
Blessed be Jehovah/God
your
'Elohiym/Godhead,
Who
delighted in you,
to
set you on the throne of Israel . . .
because
Jehovah/God loved Israel forever,
therefore
made He you king,
to
do judgment and justice.
10
And she gave the king
an
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.
11
And the navy also of Hiram,
that
brought gold from Ophir,
brought
in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees,
and
precious stones.
12
And the king made of the almug trees
pillars
for the house of Jehovah/God,
and
for the king's house,
harps
also and psalteries for singers.
There
came no such almug trees,
nor
were seen unto this day.
13
And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba
all
her desire, whatsoever she asked,
beside
that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty.
So
she turned and went to her own country,
she
and her servants.
14
Now the weight of gold
that
came to Solomon in one year
was
six hundred threescore and six talents of gold, 15
beside
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.
16
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold . . .
six
hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
17
And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold;
three
pound of gold went to one shield
and
the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
18
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory,
and
overlaid it with the best gold.
19
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.
20
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.
21
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.
22
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.
23
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth
for
riches and for wisdom.
24
And all the earth sought to Solomon,
to
hear his wisdom,
which
'Elohiym/Godhead had put in his heart.
25
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.
26
And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen
and
he had a thousand and four hundred chariots,
and
twelve thousand horsemen,
whom
he bestowed in the cities for chariots,
and
with the king at Jerusalem.
27
And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones,
and
cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees
that
are in the vale, for abundance.
28
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt,
and
linen yarn.
The
king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
29
And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt
for
six hundred shekels of silver,
and
an horse for an 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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