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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon's reputation with the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2She brought along a large retinue, camels laden with spices, and lots of gold and precious stones. Upon her arrival, she spoke with Solomon about everything that was on her mind. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Solomon answered all of her questions. Nothing was hidden from Solomon that he did not explain to her. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When the queen of Sheba had seen all of Solomon's wisdom for herself, the palace that he had built, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5the food set at his table, his servants who sat with him, his ministers in attendance and how they were dressed, his personal staff and how they were dressed, and even his personal stairway by which he went up to the LORD's Temple, she was breathless! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Everything I heard about your wisdom and what you have to say is true!" she gasped, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"but I didn't believe it at first! But then I came here and I've seen it for myself! It's amazing! I wasn't told half of what's really great about your wisdom. You're far better in person than what the reports have said about you! |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8How blessed are your staff! And how blessed are your employees, who serve you continuously and get to listen to your wisdom! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And blessed be the LORD your God, who is delighted with you! He set you in place on the throne of Israel because the LORD loved Israel forever. That's why he made you to be king, so you could carry out justice and implement righteousness." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a vast quantity of spices, and precious stones. No spices ever came again that were comparable to those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Hiram's ships that brought gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir lots of algum wood and precious stones. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The king used the algum wood to have supports made for the LORD's Temple and for the royal palace, as well as lyres and harps for the choir, and nothing like that wood has ever come again or even been seen since right to this day. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13In return, King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba everything she wanted and had requested in addition to what he had given her consistent with his generosity. Afterward, she returned to her own land with her servants. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Solomon's annual revenue was 666 talents of gold, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15not including revenue from traders, merchants, and from all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, overlaying each large shield with the gold from 600 gold pieces, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17and 300 shields from beaten gold, overlaying each shield with the gold from 300 gold pieces. The king put them in his palace in the Lebanon forest. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Six steps led up to the throne, which had a round canopy fastened to the rear of the throne and armrests on each side of the seat and two lions standing on either side of each armrest. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Twelve lions were placed on both sides of the six steps leading to the throne, and nothing comparable was made for any other kingdoms. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21All of King Solomon's drinking vessels were made of gold, and all the vessels in his palace in the Lebanon forest were made of pure gold. None were of silver, because silver was never considered to be valuable during Solomon's lifetime, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22because the king had ships that sailed to Tarshish accompanied by Hiram's ships. Once every three years ships from Tarshish returned, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23As a result, King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in regards to wealth and wisdom. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24All the earth continued to seek audiences with Solomon so they could hear the wise things that God had put in his heart. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Everyone kept on bringing gifts on an annual basis, including items made of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Solomon accumulated chariots and cavalry. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 cavalry soldiers. He stationed them in various chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and made cedar trees as abundant as sycamore trees in the Shephelah. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Solomon imported horses from Egypt and Kue, and the king's buyers procured them at market price from Kue. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29A chariot from Egypt cost 600 pieces of silver, and a horse 150 pieces of silver, but then they were exported to all the Hittite kings and to the Aramean kings. |
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