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1 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. 2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and pre­cious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she com­muned with him of all that was in her heart. 3 And Solomon told her all her ques­tions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not. 4 And when the queen of She­ba had seen all Solomon's wis­dom, and the house that he had built, 5 And the meat of his table, and the sit­ting of his ser­vants, and the at­ten­dance of his min­is­ters, and their ap­par­el, and his cup­bear­ers, and his as­cent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spir­it in her. 6 And she said to the king, It was a true re­port that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wis­dom. 7 How­beit I be­lieved not the words, un­til I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, be­hold, the half was not told me: thy wis­dom and pros­per­i­ty ex­ceedeth the fame which I heard. 8 Hap­py are thy men, hap­py are these thy ser­vants, which stand con­tin­u­al­ly be­fore thee, and that hear thy wis­dom. 9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which de­light­ed in thee, to set thee on the throne of Is­rael: be­cause the LORD loved Is­rael for ev­er, there­fore made he thee king, to do judg­ment and jus­tice. 10 And she gave the king an hun­dred and twen­ty tal­ents of gold, and of spices very great store, and pre­cious stones: there came no more such abun­dance of spices as these which the queen of She­ba gave to king Solomon. 11 And the navy also of Hi­ram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plen­ty of al­mug trees, and pre­cious stones. 12 And the king made of the al­mug trees pil­lars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalter­ies for singers: there came no such al­mug trees, nor were seen unto this day. 13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of She­ba all her de­sire, what­so­ev­er she asked, be­side that which Solomon gave her of his roy­al boun­ty. So she turned and went to her own coun­try, she and her ser­vants. 14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hun­dred three­score and six tal­ents of gold, 15 Be­side that he had of the mer­chant­men, and of the traf­fick of the spice mer­chants, and of all the kings of Ara­bia, and of the gov­er­nors of the coun­try. 16 And king Solomon made two hun­dred tar­gets of beat­en gold: six hun­dred shekels of gold went to one tar­get. 17 And he made three hun­dred shields of beat­en gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the for­est of Lebanon. 18 More­over the king made a great throne of ivory, and over­laid it with the best gold. 19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round be­hind: and there were stays on ei­ther side on the place of the seat, and two li­ons stood be­side the stays. 20 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. 21 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; none were of sil­ver: it was noth­ing ac­count­ed of in the days of Solomon. 22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hi­ram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bring­ing gold, and sil­ver, ivory, and apes, and pea­cocks. 23 So king Solomon ex­ceed­ed all the kings of the earth for rich­es and for wis­dom. 24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wis­dom, which God had put in his heart. 25 And they brought ev­ery man his pre­sent, ves­sels of sil­ver, and ves­sels of gold, and gar­ments, and ar­mour, and spices, hors­es, and mules, a rate year by year. 26 And Solomon gath­ered to­geth­er char­i­ots and horse­men: and he had a thou­sand and four hun­dred char­i­ots, and twelve thou­sand horse­men, whom he be­stowed in the cities for char­i­ots, and with the king at Jerusalem. 27 And the king made sil­ver ­to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he ­to be as the syco­more trees that are in the vale, for abun­dance. 28 And Solomon had hors­es brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's mer­chants re­ceived the linen yarn at a price. 29 And a char­i­ot came up and went out of Egypt for six hun­dred shekels of sil­ver, and an horse for an hun­dred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hit­tites, and for the kings of Syr­ia, did they bring them out by their means.