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1Ki 10:1	Strong Concordance	And when the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] heard [08085] of the fame [08088] of Solomon [08010] concerning the name [08034] of the LORD [03068], she came [0935] to prove [05254] him with hard questions [02420].
	King James	And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA ADMIRES THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON. (Kg1 10:1-13) the queen of Sheba--Some think her country was the Sabean kingdom of Yemen, of which the capital was Saba, in Arabia-Felix; others, that it was in African Ethiopia, that is, Abyssinia, towards the south of the Red Sea. The opinions preponderate in favor of the former. This view harmonizes with the language of our Lord, as Yemen means "South"; and this country, extending to the shores of the Indian ocean, might in ancient times be considered "the uttermost parts of the earth." heard of the fame of Solomon--doubtless by the Ophir fleet. concerning the name of the Lord--meaning either his great knowledge of God, or the extraordinary things which God had done for him. hard questions--enigmas or riddles. The Orientals delight in this species of intellectual exercise and test wisdom by the power and readiness to solve them.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

THE QUEEN OF SHEBA ADMIRES THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON. (Kg1 10:1-13)

the queen of Sheba--Some think her country was the Sabean kingdom of Yemen, of which the capital was Saba, in Arabia-Felix; others, that it was in African Ethiopia, that is, Abyssinia, towards the south of the Red Sea. The opinions preponderate in favor of the former. This view harmonizes with the language of our Lord, as Yemen means "South"; and this country, extending to the shores of the Indian ocean, might in ancient times be considered "the uttermost parts of the earth."

heard of the fame of Solomon--doubtless by the Ophir fleet.

concerning the name of the Lord--meaning either his great knowledge of God, or the extraordinary things which God had done for him.

hard questions--enigmas or riddles. The Orientals delight in this species of intellectual exercise and test wisdom by the power and readiness to solve them.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Doubt has arisen whether the "queen of Sheba" was an Ethiopian or an Arabian princess. Both countries profess to have traditions on the subject connecting the queen of Sheba with their history; and in both countries, curiously enough, government by queens was common. But the claims of Arabia decidedly preponderate. The Arabian Sheba was the great spice country of the ancient world; whereas Ethiopia furnished no spices. The Arabian Sheba was an important kingdom. Sheba in Ethiopia was a mere town, subject to Meroe. And it may be doubted whether the Cushite Sheba of Scripture Gen 10:7 is not rather to be sought on the shores of the Persian Gulf (Gen 10:7 note), from where no one supposes "the queen of Sheba" to have come. If Ophir be placed in Arabia, there will be an additional reason for regarding Sheba as in the same quarter, because then Solomon's trade with that place will account for his fame having reached the Sabaean princess. "The fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord," has been variously explained, and is confessedly very obscure. May it not mean what we should call "his religious fame," as distinct from his artistic, literary, military, or political fame - "his fame with respect to God and the things of God" - or, in other words, "his moral and religious wisdom?" (compare Kg1 10:6). Hard questions - Or "riddles" Jdg 14:12, though not exactly riddles in our sense. The Orientals have always been fond of playing with words and testing each other's wit and intelligence by verbal puzzles of various kinds. This spirit seems to have been particularly rife in Solomon's time, for Josephus records other encounters with Hiram of Tyre and another Tyrian called Abdemonus.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
Visit of the Queen of Saba (cf. Ch2 9:1-12). - When the fame of Solomon's great wisdom came to the ears of the queen of Saba, probably through the Ophir voyages, she undertook a journey to Jerusalem, to convince herself of the truth of the report which had reached her, by putting it to the test by means of enigmas. שׁבא, Σαβά, is not Ethiopia or Mero, as Josephus (Ant. viii. 6, 5), who confounds שׁבא with סבא, and the Abyssinian Christians suppose (vid., Ludolfi hist. Aeth. ii. 3), but the kingdom of the Sabaeans, who were celebrated for their trade in incense, gold, and precious stones, and who dwelt in Arabia Felix, with the capital Saba, or the Μαριάβα of the Greeks. This queen, who is called Balkis in the Arabian legend (cf. Koran, Sur. 27, and Pococke, Specim. hist. Arab. p. 60), heard the fame of Solomon יהוה לשׁם; i.e., not "at the naming of the name of Jehovah" (Bttcher), nor "in respect of the glory of the Lord, with regard to that which Solomon had instituted for the glory of the Lord" (Thenius); nor even "serving to the glorification of God" (de Wette and Maurer); but literally, "belonging to the name of the Lord:" in other words, the fame which Solomon had acquired through the name of the Lord, or through the fact that the Lord had so glorified Himself in him (Ewald and Dietrich in Ges. Lex. s.v. ל). "She came to try him with riddles," i.e., to put his wisdom to the test by carrying on a conversation with him in riddles. The love of the Arabs for riddles, and their superiority in this jeu d'esprit, is sufficiently well known from the immense extent to which the Arabic literature abounds in Mashals. We have only to think of the large collections of proverbs made by Ali ben Abi Taleb and Meidani, or the Makamen of Hariri, which have been made accessible to all by F. Rckert's masterly translation into German, and which are distinguished by an amazing fulness of word-play and riddles. חידה, a riddle, is a pointed saying which merely hints at the deeper truth and leaves it to be guessed. Kg1 10:2-3 As the queen of a wealthy country, she came with a very large retinue. חיל does not mean a military force or an armed escort (Thenius), but riches, property; namely, her numerous retinue of men (עבדים, Kg1 10:13), and camels laden with valuable treasures. The words יקרה...גּמלּים are an explanatory circumstantial clause, both here and also in the Chronicles, where the cop. Vav stands before גּמלּים (cf. Ewald, 341, a., b.). "And spake to Solomon all that she had upon her heart," i.e., in this connection, whatever riddles she had it in her mind to lay before him; "and Solomon told her all her sayings," i.e., was able to solve all her riddles. There is no ground for thinking of sayings of a religious nature, as the earlier commentators supposed, but simply of sayings the meaning of which was concealed, and the understanding of which indicated very deep wisdom. Kg1 10:4-5 She saw הבּית, i.e., Solomon's palace, not the temple, and "the food of his table," i.e., both the great variety of food that was placed upon the king's table (Kg1 5:2-3), and also the costly furniture of the table (Kg1 10:21), and "the seat of his retainers and the standing of his servants," i.e., the places in the palace assigned to the ministers and servants of the king, which were contrived with wisdom and arranged in a splendid manner. עבדים are the chief officers of the king, viz., ministers, counsellors, and aides de camp; משׁרתים, the court servants; מושׁב, the rooms of the courtiers in attendance; מעמד, the standing-place, i.e., the rooms of the inferior servants, "and their clothing," which they received from the king; and משׁקיו, not his cup-bearers (lxx, Vulg.), but as in Gen 40:21, the drink, i.e., probably the whole of the drinking arrangements; ועלתו, and his ascent, by which he was accustomed to go into the house of Jehovah. עלה does not mean burnt-offering here, as the older translators have rendered it, but ascent, as in Eze 40:26, and as the Chronicles have correctly explained it by עליּתו. For burnt-offering is not to be thought of in this connection, because the queen had nothing to see or to be astonished at in the presentation of such an offering. עלתו is most likely "the king's outer entrance" into the temple, mentioned in Kg2 16:18; and the passage before us would lead us to suppose that this was a work of art, or an artistic arrangement. וגו היה ולא, "and there was no more spirit in her:" she was beside herself with amazement, as in Jos 5:1; Jos 2:11. Kg1 10:6-9 She then said with astonishment to Solomon, that of what her eyes now saw she had not heard the half, through the report which had reached her of his affairs and of his wisdom, and which had hitherto appeared incredible to her; and not only congratulated his servants, who stood continually near him and could hear his wisdom, but also praised Jehovah his God, that out of His eternal love to His people Israel He had given them a king to do justice and righteousness. The earlier theologians inferred from this praising of Jehovah, which involved faith in the true God, when taken in connection with Mat 12:42, that this queen had been converted to the true God, and conversed with Solomon on religious matters. But, as we have already observed at Kg1 5:7, an acknowledgment of Jehovah as the God of Israel was reconcilable with polytheism. And the fact that nothing is said about her offering sacrifice in the temple, shows that the conversion of the queen is not to be thought of here. Kg1 10:10 She thereupon presented to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold (more than three million thalers nearly half a million sterling - Tr.]), and a very large quantity of spices and precious stones. The בּשׂמים probably included the genuine balsam of Arabia, even if בּשׂם was not the specific name of the genuine balsam. "There never more came so much of such spices of Jerusalem." Instead of לרב עוד...בּא לא we find in the Chronicles, Kg1 10:9, simply היה לא, "there was nothing like this balsam," which conveys the same meaning though expressed more indefinitely, since ההוּא ecni כּבּשׂם points back to the preceding words, "balsam (spices) in great quantity." (Note: It was this which gave rise to the legend in Josephus (Ant. viii. 6, 6), that it was through this queen that the root of the true balsam (Opobalsamum), which was afterwards cultivated in gardens at Jericho and Engedi, was first of all brought to Palestine (cf. Movers, Phnizier, ii. 3, p. 226ff.). Kg1 10:11-12 The allusion to these costly presents leads the historian to introduce the remark here, that the Ophir fleet also brought, in addition to gold, a large quantity of Algummim wood (see at Kg1 9:28) and precious stones. Of this wood Solomon had מסעד or מסלּות made for the temple and palace. מסעד, from סעד, signifies a support, and מסלּה may be a later form for סלּם, a flight of steps or a staircase, so that we should have to think of steps with bannisters. This explanation is at any rate a safer one than that of "divans" (Thenius), which would have been quite out of place in the temple, or "narrow pannelled stripes on the floor" (Bertheau), which cannot in the smallest degree be deduced from מסעד, or "support = moveables, viz., tables, benches, footstools, boxes, and drawers" (Bttcher), which neither harmonizes with the temple, where there was no such furniture, nor with the מסלּות of the Chronicles. "And guitars and harps for the singers," probably for the temple singers. כּנּור and נבל are string instruments; the former resembling our guitar rather than the harp, the strings being carried over the sounding-board upon a bridge, the latter being of a pitcher shape without any sounding bridge, as in the case of the harps. Kg1 10:13 Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she wished and asked for, beside what he gave her "according to the hand," i.e., the might, of the king; that is to say, in addition to the presents answering to his might and his wealth, which he was obliged to give as a king, according to the Oriental custom. In the Chronicles (Kg1 10:12) we find "beside that which she had brought (הביאה) to the king," which is an abbreviated expression for "beside that which he gave her in return for what she had brought to him," or beside the return presents corresponding to her gifts to him, as it has been already correctly paraphrased by the Targum.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

Visit of the Queen of Saba (cf. Ch2 9:1-12). - When the fame of Solomon's great wisdom came to the ears of the queen of Saba, probably through the Ophir voyages, she undertook a journey to Jerusalem, to convince herself of the truth of the report which had reached her, by putting it to the test by means of enigmas. שׁבא, Σαβά, is not Ethiopia or Mero, as Josephus (Ant. viii. 6, 5), who confounds שׁבא with סבא, and the Abyssinian Christians suppose (vid., Ludolfi hist. Aeth. ii. 3), but the kingdom of the Sabaeans, who were celebrated for their trade in incense, gold, and precious stones, and who dwelt in Arabia Felix, with the capital Saba, or the Μαριάβα of the Greeks. This queen, who is called Balkis in the Arabian legend (cf. Koran, Sur. 27, and Pococke, Specim. hist. Arab. p. 60), heard the fame of Solomon יהוה לשׁם; i.e., not "at the naming of the name of Jehovah" (Bttcher), nor "in respect of the glory of the Lord, with regard to that which Solomon had instituted for the glory of the Lord" (Thenius); nor even "serving to the glorification of God" (de Wette and Maurer); but literally, "belonging to the name of the Lord:" in other words, the fame which Solomon had acquired through the name of the Lord, or through the fact that the Lord had so glorified Himself in him (Ewald and Dietrich in Ges. Lex. s.v. ל). "She came to try him with riddles," i.e., to put his wisdom to the test by carrying on a conversation with him in riddles. The love of the Arabs for riddles, and their superiority in this jeu d'esprit, is sufficiently well known from the immense extent to which the Arabic literature abounds in Mashals. We have only to think of the large collections of proverbs made by Ali ben Abi Taleb and Meidani, or the Makamen of Hariri, which have been made accessible to all by F. Rckert's masterly translation into German, and which are distinguished by an amazing fulness of word-play and riddles. חידה, a riddle, is a pointed saying which merely hints at the deeper truth and leaves it to be guessed.

Kg1 10:2-3

As the queen of a wealthy country, she came with a very large retinue. חיל does not mean a military force or an armed escort (Thenius), but riches, property; namely, her numerous retinue of men (עבדים, Kg1 10:13), and camels laden with valuable treasures. The words יקרה...גּמלּים are an explanatory circumstantial clause, both here and also in the Chronicles, where the cop. Vav stands before גּמלּים (cf. Ewald, 341, a., b.). "And spake to Solomon all that she had upon her heart," i.e., in this connection, whatever riddles she had it in her mind to lay before him; "and Solomon told her all her sayings," i.e., was able to solve all her riddles. There is no ground for thinking of sayings of a religious nature, as the earlier commentators supposed, but simply of sayings the meaning of which was concealed, and the understanding of which indicated very deep wisdom.

Kg1 10:4-5

She saw הבּית, i.e., Solomon's palace, not the temple, and "the food of his table," i.e., both the great variety of food that was placed upon the king's table (Kg1 5:2-3), and also the costly furniture of the table (Kg1 10:21), and "the seat of his retainers and the standing of his servants," i.e., the places in the palace assigned to the ministers and servants of the king, which were contrived with wisdom and arranged in a splendid manner. עבדים are the chief officers of the king, viz., ministers, counsellors, and aides de camp; משׁרתים, the court servants; מושׁב, the rooms of the courtiers in attendance; מעמד, the standing-place, i.e., the rooms of the inferior servants, "and their clothing," which they received from the king; and משׁקיו, not his cup-bearers (lxx, Vulg.), but as in Gen 40:21, the drink, i.e., probably the whole of the drinking arrangements; ועלתו, and his ascent, by which he was accustomed to go into the house of Jehovah. עלה does not mean burnt-offering here, as the older translators have rendered it, but ascent, as in Eze 40:26, and as the Chronicles have correctly explained it by עליּתו. For burnt-offering is not to be thought of in this connection, because the queen had nothing to see or to be astonished at in the presentation of such an offering. עלתו is most likely "the king's outer entrance" into the temple, mentioned in Kg2 16:18; and the passage before us would lead us to suppose that this was a work of art, or an artistic arrangement. וגו היה ולא, "and there was no more spirit in her:" she was beside herself with amazement, as in Jos 5:1; Jos 2:11.

Kg1 10:6-9

She then said with astonishment to Solomon, that of what her eyes now saw she had not heard the half, through the report which had reached her of his affairs and of his wisdom, and which had hitherto appeared incredible to her; and not only congratulated his servants, who stood continually near him and could hear his wisdom, but also praised Jehovah his God, that out of His eternal love to His people Israel He had given them a king to do justice and righteousness. The earlier theologians inferred from this praising of Jehovah, which involved faith in the true God, when taken in connection with Mat 12:42, that this queen had been converted to the true God, and conversed with Solomon on religious matters. But, as we have already observed at Kg1 5:7, an acknowledgment of Jehovah as the God of Israel was reconcilable with polytheism. And the fact that nothing is said about her offering sacrifice in the temple, shows that the conversion of the queen is not to be thought of here.

Kg1 10:10

She thereupon presented to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold (more than three million thalers nearly half a million sterling - Tr.]), and a very large quantity of spices and precious stones. The בּשׂמים probably included the genuine balsam of Arabia, even if בּשׂם was not the specific name of the genuine balsam. "There never more came so much of such spices of Jerusalem." Instead of לרב עוד...בּא לא we find in the Chronicles, Kg1 10:9, simply היה לא, "there was nothing like this balsam," which conveys the same meaning though expressed more indefinitely, since ההוּא ecni כּבּשׂם points back to the preceding words, "balsam (spices) in great quantity."

(Note: It was this which gave rise to the legend in Josephus (Ant. viii. 6, 6), that it was through this queen that the root of the true balsam (Opobalsamum), which was afterwards cultivated in gardens at Jericho and Engedi, was first of all brought to Palestine (cf. Movers, Phnizier, ii. 3, p. 226ff.).

Kg1 10:11-12

The allusion to these costly presents leads the historian to introduce the remark here, that the Ophir fleet also brought, in addition to gold, a large quantity of Algummim wood (see at Kg1 9:28) and precious stones. Of this wood Solomon had מסעד or מסלּות made for the temple and palace. מסעד, from סעד, signifies a support, and מסלּה may be a later form for סלּם, a flight of steps or a staircase, so that we should have to think of steps with bannisters. This explanation is at any rate a safer one than that of "divans" (Thenius), which would have been quite out of place in the temple, or "narrow pannelled stripes on the floor" (Bertheau), which cannot in the smallest degree be deduced from מסעד, or "support = moveables, viz., tables, benches, footstools, boxes, and drawers" (Bttcher), which neither harmonizes with the temple, where there was no such furniture, nor with the מסלּות of the Chronicles. "And guitars and harps for the singers," probably for the temple singers. כּנּור and נבל are string instruments; the former resembling our guitar rather than the harp, the strings being carried over the sounding-board upon a bridge, the latter being of a pitcher shape without any sounding bridge, as in the case of the harps.

Kg1 10:13

Solomon gave the queen of Saba all that she wished and asked for, beside what he gave her "according to the hand," i.e., the might, of the king; that is to say, in addition to the presents answering to his might and his wealth, which he was obliged to give as a king, according to the Oriental custom. In the Chronicles (Kg1 10:12) we find "beside that which she had brought (הביאה) to the king," which is an abbreviated expression for "beside that which he gave her in return for what she had brought to him," or beside the return presents corresponding to her gifts to him, as it has been already correctly paraphrased by the Targum.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Sheba - Of that part of Arabia, called Shabaea, which was at great distance from Jerusalem, bordering upon the Southern Sea; for there, much more than in Ethiopia, were the commodities which she brought, Kg1 10:2, Kg1 10:10. Name of the Lord - That is, concerning God; the name of God being often put for God; concerning his deep knowledge in the things of God. For it is very probable she had, as had divers other Heathens, some knowledge of the true God, and an earnest desire to know more concerning him. Questions - Concerning natural, and civil, and especially, Divine things.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
When the queen of Sheba heard - As our Lord calls her queen of the south, (Mat 12:42), it is likely the name should be written Saba, Azab, or Azaba, all of which signify the south. She is called Balkis by the Arabians, but by the Abyssinians Maqueda. See the account at the end of this chapter, Kg1 10:29 (note). With hard questions - בחידות bechidoth; Septuagint, εν αινιγμασι, riddles. With parables and riddles, says the Arabic.

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¹ And when the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] heard [08085] of the fame [08088] of Solomon [08010] concerning the name [08034] of the LORD [03068], she came [0935] to prove [05254] him with hard questions [02420].
² And she came [0935] to Jerusalem [03389] with a very [03966] great [03515] train [02428], with camels [01581] that bare [05375] spices [01314], and very [03966] much [07227] gold [02091], and precious [03368] stones [068]: and when she was come [0935] to Solomon [08010], she communed [01696] with him of all that was in her heart [03824].
³ And Solomon [08010] told [05046] her all her questions [01697]: there was not any thing [01697] hid [05956] from the king [04428], which he told [05046] her not.
⁴ And when the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] had seen [07200] all Solomon's [08010] wisdom [02451], and the house [01004] that he had built [01129],
⁵ And the meat [03978] of his table [07979], and the sitting [04186] of his servants [05650], and the attendance [04612] of his ministers [08334], and their apparel [04403], and his cupbearers [08248], and his ascent [05930] by which he went up [05927] unto the house [01004] of the LORD [03068]; there was no more spirit [07307] in her.
⁶ And she said [0559] to the king [04428], It was a true [0571] report [01697] that I heard [08085] in mine own land [0776] of thy acts [01697] and of thy wisdom [02451].
⁷ Howbeit I believed [0539] not the words [01697], until I came [0935], and mine eyes [05869] had seen [07200] it: and, behold, the half [02677] was not told [05046] me: thy wisdom [02451] and prosperity [02896] exceedeth [03254] the fame [08052] which I heard [08085].
⁸ Happy [0835] are thy men [0582], happy [0835] are these thy servants [05650], which stand [05975] continually [08548] before [06440] thee, and that hear [08085] thy wisdom [02451].
⁹ Blessed [01288] be the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], which delighted [02654] in thee, to set [05414] thee on the throne [03678] of Israel [03478]: because the LORD [03068] loved [0160] Israel [03478] for ever [05769], therefore made [07760] he thee king [04428], to do [06213] judgment [04941] and justice [06666].
¹⁰ And she gave [05414] the king [04428] an hundred [03967] and twenty [06242] talents [03603] of gold [02091], and of spices [01314] very [03966] great store [07235], and precious [03368] stones [068]: there came [0935] no more such [01931] abundance [07230] of spices [01314] as these which the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] gave [05414] to king [04428] Solomon [08010].
¹¹ And the navy [0590] also of Hiram [02438], that brought [05375] gold [02091] from Ophir [0211], brought in [0935] from Ophir [0211] great [03966] plenty [07235] of almug [0484] trees [06086], and precious [03368] stones [068].
¹² And the king [04428] made [06213] of the almug [0484] trees [06086] pillars [04552] for the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and for the king's [04428] house [01004], harps [03658] also and psalteries [05035] for singers [07891]: there came [0935] no such almug [0484] trees [06086], nor were seen [07200] unto this day [03117].
¹³ And king [04428] Solomon [08010] gave [05414] unto the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] all her desire [02656], whatsoever she asked [07592], beside that which Solomon [08010] gave [05414] her of his royal [04428] bounty [03027]. So she turned [06437] and went [03212] to her own country [0776], she and her servants [05650].

¹² And Samson [08123] said [0559] unto them, I will now put forth [02330] a riddle [02420] unto you: if ye can certainly [05046] declare [05046] it me within the seven [07651] days [03117] of the feast [04960], and find it out [04672], then I will give [05414] you thirty [07970] sheets [05466] and thirty [07970] change [02487] of garments [0899]:

⁶ And she said [0559] to the king [04428], It was a true [0571] report [01697] that I heard [08085] in mine own land [0776] of thy acts [01697] and of thy wisdom [02451].

⁷ And the sons [01121] of Cush [03568]; Seba [05434], and Havilah [02341], and Sabtah [05454], and Raamah [07484], and Sabtecha [05455]: and the sons [01121] of Raamah [07484]; Sheba [07614], and Dedan [01719].

¹² And the king [04428] made [06213] of the almug [0484] trees [06086] pillars [04552] for the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and for the king's [04428] house [01004], harps [03658] also and psalteries [05035] for singers [07891]: there came [0935] no such almug [0484] trees [06086], nor were seen [07200] unto this day [03117].

¹³ And king [04428] Solomon [08010] gave [05414] unto the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] all her desire [02656], whatsoever she asked [07592], beside that which Solomon [08010] gave [05414] her of his royal [04428] bounty [03027]. So she turned [06437] and went [03212] to her own country [0776], she and her servants [05650].

²⁸ And they came [0935] to Ophir [0211], and fetched [03947] from thence gold [02091], four [0702] hundred [03967] and twenty [06242] talents [03603], and brought [0935] it to king [04428] Solomon [08010].

¹¹ And the navy [0590] also of Hiram [02438], that brought [05375] gold [02091] from Ophir [0211], brought in [0935] from Ophir [0211] great [03966] plenty [07235] of almug [0484] trees [06086], and precious [03368] stones [068].
¹² And the king [04428] made [06213] of the almug [0484] trees [06086] pillars [04552] for the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and for the king's [04428] house [01004], harps [03658] also and psalteries [05035] for singers [07891]: there came [0935] no such almug [0484] trees [06086], nor were seen [07200] unto this day [03117].

⁹ Blessed [01288] be the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], which delighted [02654] in thee, to set [05414] thee on the throne [03678] of Israel [03478]: because the LORD [03068] loved [0160] Israel [03478] for ever [05769], therefore made [07760] he thee king [04428], to do [06213] judgment [04941] and justice [06666].

¹⁰ And she gave [05414] the king [04428] an hundred [03967] and twenty [06242] talents [03603] of gold [02091], and of spices [01314] very [03966] great store [07235], and precious [03368] stones [068]: there came [0935] no more such [01931] abundance [07230] of spices [01314] as these which the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] gave [05414] to king [04428] Solomon [08010].

⁷ And it came to pass, when Hiram [02438] heard [08085] the words [01697] of Solomon [08010], that he rejoiced [08055] greatly [03966], and said [0559], Blessed [01288] be the LORD [03068] this day [03117], which hath given [05414] unto David [01732] a wise [02450] son [01121] over this great [07227] people [05971].

⁴² The queen [938] of the south [3558] shall rise up [1453] in [1722] the judgment [2920] with [3326] this [5026] generation [1074], and [2532] shall condemn [2632] it [846]: for [3754] she came [2064] from [1537] the uttermost parts [4009] of the earth [1093] to hear [191] the wisdom [4678] of Solomon [4672]; and [2532], behold [2400], a greater than [4119] Solomon [4672] is here [5602].

⁶ And she said [0559] to the king [04428], It was a true [0571] report [01697] that I heard [08085] in mine own land [0776] of thy acts [01697] and of thy wisdom [02451].
⁷ Howbeit I believed [0539] not the words [01697], until I came [0935], and mine eyes [05869] had seen [07200] it: and, behold, the half [02677] was not told [05046] me: thy wisdom [02451] and prosperity [02896] exceedeth [03254] the fame [08052] which I heard [08085].
⁸ Happy [0835] are thy men [0582], happy [0835] are these thy servants [05650], which stand [05975] continually [08548] before [06440] thee, and that hear [08085] thy wisdom [02451].
⁹ Blessed [01288] be the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], which delighted [02654] in thee, to set [05414] thee on the throne [03678] of Israel [03478]: because the LORD [03068] loved [0160] Israel [03478] for ever [05769], therefore made [07760] he thee king [04428], to do [06213] judgment [04941] and justice [06666].

¹¹ And as soon as we had heard [08085] these things, our hearts [03824] did melt [04549], neither did there remain [06965] any more courage [07307] in any man [0376], because [06440] of you: for the LORD [03068] your God [0430], he is God [0430] in heaven [08064] above [04605], and in earth [0776] beneath.

¹ And it came to pass, when all the kings [04428] of the Amorites [0567], which were on the side [05676] of Jordan [03383] westward [03220], and all the kings [04428] of the Canaanites [03669], which were by the sea [03220], heard [08085] that the LORD [03068] had dried up [03001] the waters [04325] of Jordan [03383] from before [06440] the children [01121] of Israel [03478], until we were passed over [05674], that their heart [03824] melted [04549], neither was there spirit [07307] in them any more, because [06440] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478].

¹⁸ And the covert [04329] [04329] for the sabbath [07676] that they had built [01129] in the house [01004], and the king's [04428] entry [03996] without [02435], turned [05437] he from the house [01004] of the LORD [03068] for [06440] the king [04428] of Assyria [0804].

²⁶ And there were seven [07651] steps [04609] to go up [05930] to it, and the arches [0361] thereof were before [06440] them: and it had palm trees [08561], one [0259] on this side, and another [0259] on that side, upon the posts [0352] thereof.

²¹ And he restored [07725] the chief [08269] butler [08248] unto his butlership [04945] again [07725]; and he gave [05414] the cup [03563] into Pharaoh's [06547] hand [03709]:

²¹ And all king [04428] Solomon's [08010] drinking [04945] vessels [03627] were of gold [02091], and all the vessels [03627] of the house [01004] of the forest [03293] of Lebanon [03844] were of pure [05462] gold [02091]; none were of silver [03701]: it was nothing [03972] accounted [02803] of in the days [03117] of Solomon [08010].

² And Solomon [08010] sent [07971] to Hiram [02438], saying [0559],
³ Thou knowest [03045] how that David [01732] my father [01] could [03201] not build [01129] an house [01004] unto the name [08034] of the LORD [03068] his God [0430] for [06440] the wars [04421] which were about him on every side [05437], until the LORD [03068] put [05414] them under the soles [03709] of his feet [07272].

⁴ And when the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] had seen [07200] all Solomon's [08010] wisdom [02451], and the house [01004] that he had built [01129],
⁵ And the meat [03978] of his table [07979], and the sitting [04186] of his servants [05650], and the attendance [04612] of his ministers [08334], and their apparel [04403], and his cupbearers [08248], and his ascent [05930] by which he went up [05927] unto the house [01004] of the LORD [03068]; there was no more spirit [07307] in her.

² And she came [0935] to Jerusalem [03389] with a very [03966] great [03515] train [02428], with camels [01581] that bare [05375] spices [01314], and very [03966] much [07227] gold [02091], and precious [03368] stones [068]: and when she was come [0935] to Solomon [08010], she communed [01696] with him of all that was in her heart [03824].
³ And Solomon [08010] told [05046] her all her questions [01697]: there was not any thing [01697] hid [05956] from the king [04428], which he told [05046] her not.

¹ And when the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] heard [08085] of the fame [08088] of Solomon [08010], she came [0935] to prove [05254] Solomon [08010] with hard questions [02420] at Jerusalem [03389], with a very [03966] great [03515] company [02428], and camels [01581] that bare [05375] spices [01314], and gold [02091] in abundance [07230], and precious [03368] stones [068]: and when she was come [0935] to Solomon [08010], she communed [01696] with him of all that was in her heart [03824].
² And Solomon [08010] told [05046] her all her questions [01697]: and there was nothing hid [05956] from Solomon [08010] which he told [05046] her not.
³ And when the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] had seen [07200] the wisdom [02451] of Solomon [08010], and the house [01004] that he had built [01129],
⁴ And the meat [03978] of his table [07979], and the sitting [04186] of his servants [05650], and the attendance [04612] of his ministers [08334], and their apparel [04403]; his cupbearers [08248] also, and their apparel [04403]; and his ascent [05944] by which he went up [05927] into the house [01004] of the LORD [03068]; there was no more spirit [07307] in her.
⁵ And she said [0559] to the king [04428], It was a true [0571] report [01697] which I heard [08085] in mine own land [0776] of thine acts [01697], and of thy wisdom [02451]:
⁶ Howbeit I believed [0539] not their words [01697], until I came [0935], and mine eyes [05869] had seen [07200] it: and, behold, the one half [02677] of the greatness [04768] of thy wisdom [02451] was not told [05046] me: for thou exceedest [03254] the fame [08052] that I heard [08085].
⁷ Happy [0835] are thy men [0582], and happy [0835] are these thy servants [05650], which stand [05975] continually [08548] before [06440] thee, and hear [08085] thy wisdom [02451].
⁸ Blessed [01288] be the LORD [03068] thy God [0430], which delighted [02654] in thee to set [05414] thee on his throne [03678], to be king [04428] for the LORD [03068] thy God [0430]: because thy God [0430] loved [0160] Israel [03478], to establish [05975] them for ever [05769], therefore made [05414] he thee king [04428] over them, to do [06213] judgment [04941] and justice [06666].
⁹ And she gave [05414] the king [04428] an hundred [03967] and twenty [06242] talents [03603] of gold [02091], and of spices [01314] great [03966] abundance [07230], and precious [03368] stones [068]: neither was there any such spice [01314] as the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] gave [05414] king [04428] Solomon [08010].
¹⁰ And the servants [05650] also of Huram [02361], and the servants [05650] of Solomon [08010], which brought [0935] gold [02091] from Ophir [0211], brought [0935] algum [0418] trees [06086] and precious [03368] stones [068].
¹¹ And the king [04428] made [06213] of the algum [0418] trees [06086] terraces [04546] to the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and to the king's [04428] palace [01004], and harps [03658] and psalteries [05035] for singers [07891]: and there were none such [01992] seen [07200] before [06440] in the land [0776] of Judah [03063].
¹² And king [04428] Solomon [08010] gave [05414] to the queen [04436] of Sheba [07614] all her desire [02656], whatsoever she asked [07592], beside that which she had brought [0935] unto the king [04428]. So she turned [02015], and went away [03212] to her own land [0776], she and her servants [05650].

²⁹ And a chariot [04818] came up [05927] and went out [03318] of Egypt [04714] for six [08337] hundred [03967] shekels of silver [03701], and an horse [05483] for an hundred [03967] and fifty [02572]: and so for all the kings [04428] of the Hittites [02850], and for the kings [04428] of Syria [0758], did they bring them out [03318] by their means [03027].