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1 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 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 was noth­ing hid from Solomon which he told her not. 3 And when the queen of She­ba had seen the wis­dom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, 4 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. 5 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 great­ness of thy wis­dom was not told me: for thou ex­ceedest the fame that I heard. 7 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. 9 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. 11 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 Solomon in one year was six hun­dred and three­score and six tal­ents of gold; 14 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: 19 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. 20 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. 21 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. 22 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 syco­more 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.