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7 How blessed are your men! And How blessed are your servants, these who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom! 8 YHWH your God be blessed, who delighted in you to set you on His throne as king for YHWH your God. Because your God has loved Israel to establish them forever, therefore He made you king over them to do justice and righteousness.” 9 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones. And there were no spices such as that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. 10 (And the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir brought algum wood and precious stones. 11 And the king made the algum wood steps for the house of YHWH, and for the house of the king, and lyres and harps for the singers; and nothing like these had been seen before in the land of Judah.) 12 And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, apart from that which she had brought to the king. And she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants. 13 And the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, 14 apart from what the men, the travelers, and the 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 large shields of hammered gold (six hundred hammered shekels of gold went into one shield), 16 and three hundred shields of hammered gold (three hundred shekels of gold went into one shield). And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. 17 And the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. 18 And six steps were to the throne, and a footstool of gold, fastened to the throne, and hands on this side and on this on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the armrests. 19 And twelve lions stood there on the six steps on this side and on this. Nothing thus had been made for any kingdom. 20 And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon pure gold. Silver was not accounted for anything in the days of Solomon. 21 For ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once in three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. 22 And King Solomon surpassed 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, each man, his present, articles of silver, and articles gold, and garments, armor and spices, horses and mules, a matter of year by year. 25 And there were unto Solomon four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses; and he stationed them in cities of the chariot and with the king at Jerusalem. 26 And he reigned over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt. 27 And the king made the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees he made as abundant as the sycamores that are in the Shephelah. 28 And they brought to Solomon horses from Egypt, and from all the lands. 29 And the rest of the acts of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written in the Words of Nathan the Prophet, and in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the Visions of Iddo the Seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat? 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 And Solomon rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the City of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. 2 Chronicles 9:7-31, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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