1 Kings 10

10And when the ^aqueen of ^bSheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with ^chard questions. ²And 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. ³And Solomon told her all her ^†questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not. ⁴And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built, ⁵And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the ^†attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his ^||cupbearers, and ^dhis ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; ^ethere was no more spirit in her. ⁶And she said to the king, It was a true ^†report that I heard in mine own land of thy ^||acts and of thy wisdom. ⁷Howbeit 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. ^8fHappy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. ^9gBlessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: ^hbecause the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, ⁱto do judgment and justice. ¹⁰And she ^jgave 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. ^11kAnd the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from ^lOphir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of ^||almug trees, and precious stones. ¹²And 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. ¹³And 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.

^14mNow the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold, ¹⁵Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the ⁿspice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the ^||governors of the country. ¹⁶And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. ¹⁷And he made three hundred ^oshields of beaten gold; ^pthree pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in ^qthe house of the forest of Lebanon. ¹⁸Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the ^rbest gold. ¹⁹The 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. ²⁰And 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. ²¹And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of ^sthe house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; ^||none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. ²²For the king had at sea a navy of ^tTharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ^||ivory, and apes, and peacocks. ²³So ^uking Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. ²⁴And all the earth ^†sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. ²⁵And they brought every man his ^wpresent, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. ^26xAnd Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had ^ya thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. ^27zAnd the king ^†made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as ^athe sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance. ^28†And Solomon had ^bhorses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price. ²⁹And 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 ^cthe Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out ^†by their means.