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¹ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came toTo know whether his wisdom was as great as the report was.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.

² And Solomon told her all her questions: and there wasThere was no question so hard that he did not resolve.nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.

³ Then the Queene of Sheba sawe the wisedome of Salomon, and the house that he had buylt,

⁴ And the meate of his table, and the sitting of his seruants, and the order of his wayters, and their apparel, and his butlers, and their apparel, & his burnt offrings which he offred in the house of the Lorde, and she was greatly astonied.

⁵ And she saide to the King, It was a true worde which I heard in mine owne lande of thy sayings, and of thy wisedome:

⁶ Howbeit I beleeued not their report, vntil I came, and mine eyes had seene it: & beholde, the one halfe of thy great wisedom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

⁷ Happie are thy men, and happie are these thy seruants, which stande before thee alway, and heare thy wisedome.

⁸ Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on hisMeaning, that the Israelites were God's peculiar people, and that kings are the lieutenants of God, who ought to grant to him the superiority and administer justice to all.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.

⁹ Then she gaue the King sixe score talents of golde, and of sweete odours exceeding much & precious stones: neither was there such sweete odours since, as the Queene of Sheba gaue vnto King Salomon.

¹⁰ And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, broughtRead (2Ch_2:8, 1Ki_10:11).algum trees and precious stones.

¹¹ And the king made [of] the algum treesOr pillars: meaning the garnishing and trimming of the stairs or pillars.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,That is, which the king gave her for recompense of the treasure which she brought.beside [that] which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

¹³ Also the weight of golde that came to Salomon in one yeere, was sixe hundreth three score and sixe talents of golde,

¹⁴ Besides that which chapmen and marchants brought: and all the Kings of Arabia, and the princes of the countrey brought golde and siluer to Salomon.

¹⁵ And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold:Which amounts to 2400 crowns of the sun.Or pounds, called mina, of which every one seemed to make a hundred shekels.six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.

¹⁶ And three hundreth shieldes of beaten golde: three hundreth shekels of golde went to one shielde, and the King put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.

¹⁷ And the King made a great throne of yuorie and ouerlaid it with pure golde.

¹⁸ And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, [which were]That is, the steps and the footstool were fastened to the throne.fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by theUpon the pommels or knops.stays:

¹⁹ And twelue lyons stoode there on the sixe steps on either side: there was not the like made in any kingdome.

²⁰ And all King Salomons drinking vessels were of golde, and all the vessels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure gold: for siluer was nothing esteemed in ye dayes of Salomo.

²¹ For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships ofWhich is thought by the best writers to be Cilicia, (1Ki_10:22).Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

²² So King Salomon excelled all the Kings of the earth in riches and wisedome.

²³ And all the Kings of the earth sought the presence of Salomon, to heare his wisedome that God had put in his heart.

²⁴ And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of golde, and raiment, armour, and sweet odours, horses, and mules, from yeere to yeere.

²⁵ And Solomon hadThat is, ten horses in every stable, which in all amounts to 40,000 as in (1Ki_4:26).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 ouer all the Kings from the Riuer euen vnto the land of the Philistims, and to the border of Egypt.

²⁷ And the king made silver in JerusalemThe abundance of those temporal treasures in Solomon's kingdom is a figure of the spiritual treasures which the elect will enjoy in the heavens under the true Solomon, Christ.as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the low plains in abundance.

²⁸ And they brought vnto Salomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all landes.

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 seerThat is, who prophesied against him.against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

³⁰ And Salomon reigned in Ierusalem ouer all Israel fourtie yeeres.

³¹ And Salomon slept with his fathers, and they buryed him in the citie of Dauid his father: and Rehoboam his sonne reigned in his steade.