Book 39 : KETUVIM - 2 CHRONICLES - Chapter 009
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And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon,
she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great
train, and camels that bore spices and gold in abundance, and precious stones;
and when she was come to Solomon, she spoke with him of all that was in her
heart
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And Solomon told her all her questions; and there was not
any thing 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 food 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 HaShem;
there was no more spirit in her
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And she said to the king: 'It was a true report that I
heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom
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Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine
eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not
told me; thou exceedest the fame that I heard
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Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, that
stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom
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Blessed be HaShem thy G-d, who delighted in thee, to set
thee on His throne, to be king for HaShem thy G-d; because thy G-d loved Israel,
to establish them for ever, therefore made He thee king over them, to do justice
and righteousness.
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And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold,
and spices in great abundance, and precious stones; neither was there any such
spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon
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And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of
Solomon that brought gold from Ophir, brought sandal-wood and precious stones
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And the king made of the sandal-wood paths for the house
of HaShem, and for the king's house, and harps and psalteries for the singers;
and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah
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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 to her own land, she and her servants
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Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year
was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold
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beside that which the traffickers and merchants brought;
and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and
silver to Solomon
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And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold:
six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target
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three hundred shields of beaten gold also: three hundred
shekels of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the house of the
forest of Lebanon
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Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and
overlaid it with pure gold
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And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool
of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and arms on either side by the place
of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms
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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 king Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and
all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver
was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon
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For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the
servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing
gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks
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So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in
riches and wisdom
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And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of
Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which G-d had put in his heart
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And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver,
and vessels of gold, and raiment, armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate
year by year
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And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and
chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities,
and with the king at Jerusalem
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And he ruled over all the kings from the River even unto
the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt
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And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and
cedars made he to be as the sycamore-trees that are in the Lowland, for
abundance
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And they brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out
of all lands
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Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are
they not written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of
Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Jedo the seer concerning Jeroboam
the son of Nebat
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And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty
years
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And Solomon slept with his fathers; they buried him in the
city of David his father; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead
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