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Chapter 10
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10:1 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.
10:2 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.
10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king,
which he told her not.
10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had
built,
10:5 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.
10:6 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.
10:7 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.
10:8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee,
and that hear thy wisdom.
10:9 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.
10:10 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.
10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir
great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
10:12 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.
10:13 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.
10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore
and six talents of gold, 10:15 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.
10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of
gold went to one target.
10:17 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.
10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
10:19 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.
10:20 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.
10:21 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.
10:22 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.
10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
10:24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his
heart.
10:25 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.
10:26 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.
10:27 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.
10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants
received the linen yarn at a price.
10:29 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.
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