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II Chronicles
Chapter 9
1
And when the queen of Sheba
heard
of the fame of Solomon,
she
came to prove/test 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/'right lobe'.
2
And Solomon answered 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 Jehovah/God;
there
was no more spirit in her.
5
And she said to the king,
It
was a true report
which
I heard in my own land of your acts,
and
of your wisdom . . . 6
howbeit
I believed not their words, until I came,
and
my eyes had seen it
and,
behold, the one half of the greatness
of
your wisdom was not told me . . .
for
you exceed the fame that I heard.
7
Happy are your men,
and
happy are these your servants,
who
stand continually before you,
and
hear your wisdom.
8
Blessed be Jehovah/God
your
'Elohiym/Godhead,
Who
delighted in you to set you on His throne,
to
be king for Jehovah/God
your
'Elohiym/Godhead . . .
because
your 'Elohiym/Godhead loved Israel,
to
establish them forever,
therefore
made He you 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/Hiram,
and
the servants of Solomon,
who
brought gold from Ophir,
brought
algum trees and precious stones.
11
And the king made of the algum trees
terraces
to the house of Jehovah/God,
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/Hiram . . .
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
'Elohiym/Godhead had put in his heart/'right lobe'.
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 sycamore 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 place/stead.
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