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.
A.M.
2 Chronicles 9:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came …
Matthew 12:42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, …
Luke 11:31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men …
Sheba
Genesis 10:7,28 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, …
Genesis 25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, …
Job 6:19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Psalm 72:10,15 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the …
Isaiah 60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian …
Jeremiah 6:20 To what purpose comes there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet …
Ezekiel 27:22,23 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants: they …
Ezekiel 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young …
heard
1 Kings 4:31,34 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, …
concerning
Job 28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; …
Proverbs 2:3-6 Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding…
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true …
1 Corinthians 1:20,21 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of …
prove him
Judges 14:12-14 And Samson said to them, I will now put forth a riddle to you: if …
Psalm 49:4 I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying on the harp.
Proverbs 1:5,6 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding …
Matthew 13:11,35 He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know …
Mark 4:34 But without a parable spoke he not to them: and when they were alone, …
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.
a very great train
2 Kings 5:5,9 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter to …
Isaiah 60:6-9 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian …
Acts 25:23 And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great …
spices
Exodus 25:6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
2 Kings 20:13 And Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the house of his …
communed
Genesis 18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with …
Job 4:2 If we assay to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can …
Psalm 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart on your bed, …
Luke 24:15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, …
And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
told her
2 Chronicles 9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid …
Proverbs 1:5,6 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding …
Proverbs 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools …
Isaiah 42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead …
Matthew 13:11 He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know …
John 7:17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether …
1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom, …
Colossians 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
questions [heb] words
hid from the king
1 Kings 10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning …
1 Kings 3:12 Behold, I have done according to your words: see, I have given you …
2 Samuel 14:17,20 Then your handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be …
Daniel 2:20-23 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and …
Hebrews 4:12,13 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any …
And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
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.
the meat
1 Kings 4:22,23 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, …
attendance [heb] standing
cup-bearers. or, butlers
ascent The original () is rendered by the LXX. and Vulgate, `And the burnt offerings (or holocausts) which he offered in the house of the Lord;' with which the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic agree; and so also Luther, (), and this seems to be the true sense of the passage.
2 Kings 16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, …
1 Chronicles 9:18 Who till now waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters …
1 Chronicles 26:16 To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, …
2 Chronicles 23:13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the …
Ezekiel 44:3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread …
Ezekiel 46:2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, …
there was no
Joshua 5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were …
2 Chronicles 9:4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the …
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.
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.
I believed
Isaiah 64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived …
Zechariah 9:17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn …
Mark 16:11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen …
John 20:25-29 The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the LORD. …
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have …
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what …
thy wisdom and prosperity exceeded the fame [heb] thou hast added wisdom and goodness to the fame.
Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
happy are these
2 Chronicles 9:7,8 Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, which stand …
Proverbs 3:13,14 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding…
Proverbs 8:34 Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting …
Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Proverbs 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools …
Luke 10:39-42 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, …
Luke 11:28,31 But he said, Yes rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, …
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.
Blessed
1 Kings 5:7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that …
Psalm 72:17-19 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long …
delighteth
Psalm 18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because …
Psalm 22:8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver …
Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; …
Isaiah 62:4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any …
because the
Deuteronomy 7:8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath …
1 Chronicles 17:22 For your people Israel did you make your own people for ever; and …
2 Chronicles 2:11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to …
to do
2 Samuel 8:15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and …
2 Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules …
Psalm 72:2 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with judgment.
Proverbs 8:15,16 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice…
Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, …
Isaiah 11:4,5 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with …
Isaiah 32:1,2 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule …
Jeremiah 23:5,6 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will raise to David …
Romans 13:3,4 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will …
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.
she gave
1 Kings 10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that …
1 Kings 9:14 And Hiram sent to the king six score talents of gold.
Psalm 72:10,15 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the …
Matthew 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child …
an hundred According to Mr. Reynolds, equal to
spices
Genesis 43:11 And their father Israel said to them, If it must be so now, do this; …
Exodus 30:34 And the LORD said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte, and …
and precious
Proverbs 3:13-15 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding…
Proverbs 20:15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge …
Revelation 21:11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like to a stone most precious, …
And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
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.
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.
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
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.
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
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.
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
a great throne
2 Chronicles 9:17-19 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with …
Psalm 45:6 Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom …
Psalm 110:1 The LORD said to my Lord, Sit you at my right hand, until I make …
Psalm 122:5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Hebrews 1:3,8 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his …
Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose …
ivory
1 Kings 10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: …
1 Kings 22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory …
Psalm 45:8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the …
Ezekiel 27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; the company of the …
Amos 6:4 That lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, …
Revelation 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of …
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.
behind [heb] on the hinder part thereof.
stays [heb] hands
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.
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.
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.
Tharshish
1 Kings 22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but …
Genesis 10:4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
2 Chronicles 9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: …
2 Chronicles 20:36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and …
Psalm 48:7 You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Psalm 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the …
Isaiah 2:16 And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all pleasant pictures.
Isaiah 23:1,6,10 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, …
Isaiah 60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, …
Isaiah 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape …
Ezekiel 27:12 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind …
Jonah 1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, …
Tarshish
ivory. or, elephant's teeth
2 Samuel 10:18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven …
Amos 3:15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the …
apes, rather monkeys, the same as the Syriac () and Roman Cephus which animal both Pliny and Solinus inform us was brought from Ethiopia. The same name appears in the {monkeys} called () in the Praenstine Pavement, and in the Frence {cep} or {ceb}
peacocks
Job 39:13 Gave you the goodly wings to the peacocks? or wings and feathers to the ostrich?
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
exceeded Mr. Reynolds, stating Solomon's income at about four times as much as his father left him, reckons that he had each year
1 Kings 3:12,13 Behold, I have done according to your words: see, I have given you …
1 Kings 4:29-34 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and …
2 Chronicles 9:22,23 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom…
Psalm 89:27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
Ephesians 3:8 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given…
Colossians 1:18,19 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, …
Colossians 2:2,3 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, …
And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
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.
every man
1 Kings 10:10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and …
Judges 3:15 But when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised …
1 Samuel 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And …
2 Samuel 8:2,10 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down …
2 Chronicles 26:8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad …
Job 42:11 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and …
Psalm 72:10,15 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the …
Isaiah 36:16 Listen not to Hezekiah: for thus said the king of Assyria, Make an …
Matthew 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child …
and mules
1 Kings 1:33 The king also said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, …
1 Kings 18:5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land, to all fountains of water, …
Genesis 36:24 And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was …
Ezra 2:66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two …
Esther 8:10,14 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the …
Isaiah 66:20 And they shall bring all your brothers for an offering to the LORD …
Ezekiel 27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in your fairs with horses and …
a rate
2 Kings 17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent …
2 Chronicles 9:24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels …
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.
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.
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
Solomon [heb] the going forth of the horses which was Solomon's
horse brought
Deuteronomy 17:16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people …
2 Chronicles 1:16,17 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the …
2 Chronicles 9:28 And they brought to Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
Isaiah 31:1-3 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and …
Isaiah 36:9 How then will you turn away the face of one captain of the least …
and linen yarn
Genesis 41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's …
Proverbs 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, …
Isaiah 19:9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, …
Ezekiel 27:7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which you spread …
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.
