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Chapter 9 |
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And when the 1queen 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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1st Kings 10:1,
Matt 12:42,
Luke 11:31
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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: |
6 | Howbeit I believed not their words,
until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half
of the 1greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou
exceedest the fame that I heard.
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1st Kings 10:7,
2nd Chron 9:13-28,
Matt 6:29,
Luke 12:27
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Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually
before thee, and hear thy wisdom. |
8 | 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, 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. |
10 | 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 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 1Solomon in one year was
six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
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1st Kings 10:7,
2nd Chron 9:6,
Matt 6:29,
Luke 12:27
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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: |
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| 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. |
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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 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. |
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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 God had put in his heart. |
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 stead. |