2 Chronicles 9

9^*And ^awhen 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. ²And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not. ³And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, ⁴And 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. ⁵And she said to the king, It was a true ^†report which I heard in mine own land of thine ^||acts, and of thy wisdom: ⁶Howbeit 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. ⁷Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom. ⁸Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on ^bhis 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. ⁹And 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. ¹⁰And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought ^||algum trees and precious stones. ¹¹And 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. ¹²And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which ^cshe had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

^13dNow the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; ¹⁴Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and ^||governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon. ¹⁵And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target. ¹⁶And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: ^ethree hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. ¹⁷Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with ^fpure gold. ¹⁸And 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: ¹⁹And 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. ²⁰And 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 ^gnot any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon. ²¹For 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. ²²And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. ²³And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart. ²⁴And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, ^hharness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. ²⁵ⁱAnd Solomon had ^kfour thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. ^26lAnd he reigned over all the kings from the ^||river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. ²⁷And the king ^†made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in ^mthe low plains in abundance. ²⁸And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

²⁹ⁿNow the rest of the acts of Solomon, ^ofirst and last, are they not written in the ^†book of ^pNathan the prophet, and in the ^qprophecy of ^rAhijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of ^sIddo the ^tseer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat? ³⁰And 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.