2 Chronicles 9

¹ And the queen of Sheba has heard of the fame of Solomon, and comes in to try Solomon with acute sayings, to Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels bearing spices and gold in abundance, and precious stone; and she comes in unto Solomon, and speaks with him all that has been with her heart, ² and Solomon declares to her all her matters, and there has not been hid a thing from Solomon that he has not declared to her. ³ And the queen of Sheba sees the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he has built, ⁴ and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his ministers, and their clothing, and his stewards, and their clothing, and his burnt-offering that he offered up in the house of Yahweh, and there has not been any more spirit in her. ⁵ And she said unto the king, "True [is] the word that I heard in my land concerning your matters and concerning your wisdom, ⁶ and I have given no credence to their words, till that I have come, and mine eyes see, and lo, there has not been declared to me the half of the abundance of your wisdom - you have added unto the report that I heard. ⁷ O the happiness of your men, and the happiness of your servants - these - who are standing before you continually, and hearing your wisdom. ⁸ Let Yahweh your Elohim be blessed who has delighted in you, to put you on His throne for king for Yahweh your Elohim; in the love of your Elohim to Israel, to establish it to the eon, He has put you over them for king, to do judgment and righteousness." ⁹ And she gives to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stone; and there has not been any such spice as the queen of Sheba has given to king Solomon. ¹⁰ And also, servants of Huram, and servants of Solomon, who brought in gold from Ophir, have brought in algum-trees and precious stone. ¹¹ And the king makes the algum-trees staircases for the house of Yahweh, and for the house of the king, and harps and psalteries for singers; and there have been none seen like these before in the land of Judah. ¹² And king Solomon has given to the queen of Sheba all her desire that she asked, apart from that which she had brought unto the king, and she turns and goes to her land, she and her servants. ¹³ And the weight of the gold that is coming to Solomon in one year is six hundred and sixty and six talents of gold, ¹⁴ apart from [what] the tourists, and the merchants, are bringing in; and all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of the land, are bringing in gold and silver to Solomon. ¹⁵ And king Solomon makes two hundred targets of alloyed gold, six hundred [shekels] of alloyed gold he causes to go up on the one target; ¹⁶ and three hundred shields of alloyed gold, three hundred [shekels] of gold he causes to go up on the one shield, and the king puts them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. ¹⁷ And the king makes a great throne of ivory, and overlays it with pure gold; ¹⁸ and six steps [are] to the throne, and a footstool of gold, to the throne they are fastened, and hands [are] on this [side] and on that on the place of the sitting, and two lions are standing near the hands, ¹⁹ and twelve lions are standing there on the six steps on this [side], and on that: it has not been made so for any kingdom. ²⁰ And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon [are] of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon [are] of refined gold - silver is not reckoned in the days of Solomon for anything; ²¹ for ships of the king are going to Tarshish, with servants of Huram: once in three years come do the ships of Tarshish bearing gold, and silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ²² And king Solomon becomes greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom; ²³ and all the kings of the earth are seeking the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom that Elohim has put in his heart, ²⁴ and they are bringing in each his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. ²⁵ And there are to Solomon four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, and he placed them in cities of the chariot, and with the king in Jerusalem. ²⁶ And he is ruling over all the kings from the River even unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt. ²⁷ And the king makes the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he has made as sycamores, that [are] in the low country, for abundance, ²⁸ and they are bringing out horses from Egypt to Solomon, and from all the lands. ²⁹ And the rest of the matters of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written beside the matters of Nathan the prophet, and beside the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and with the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat? ³⁰ And Solomon reigns in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years, ³¹ and Solomon lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David his father, and reign does Rehoboam his son in his stead.