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And the queen of Sheba heard of the name of Solomon, and the name of the Lord, and she came to try him with riddles.
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And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train; and there came camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and she came in to Solomon, and told him all that was in her heart.
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And Solomon answered all her questions: and there was not a question overlooked by the king which he did not answer her.
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And the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he built,
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and the provision of Solomon and the sitting of his attendants, and the standing of his servants, and his raiment, and his cupbearers, and his whole burnt offering which he offered in the house of the Lord, and she was utterly amazed.
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And she said to King Solomon, It was a true report which I heard in my land of thy words and thy wisdom.
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But I believed not them that told me, until I came and my eyes saw: and, behold, the words as they reported to me are not the half: thou hast exceeded in goodness all the report which I heard in my land.
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Blessed are thy wives, blessed are these thy servants who stand before thee continually, who hear all thy wisdom.
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Blessed be the Lord thy God, who has taken pleasure in thee, to set thee upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord loved Israel to establish him forever; and he has made thee king over them, to execute judgment with justice, and in their causes.
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And she gave to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and very many spices, and precious stones: there had not come any other spices so abundant as those which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
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And the ship of Hiram which brought the gold from Ophir, brought very much hewn timber and precious stones.
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And the king made the hewn timber into buttresses of the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and lyres and harps for singers: such hewn timber had not come upon the earth, nor have been seen anywhere until this day.
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And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatsoever she asked, besides all that he had given her by the hand of King Solomon: and she returned, and came into her own land, she and her servants.
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And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold.
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Besides the tributes of them that were subjects, both merchants and all the kings of the country beyond the river, and of the princes of the land.
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And Solomon made three hundred spears of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold were upon one spear.
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And three hundred shields of beaten gold: and three pounds of gold were in one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
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And the king made a great ivory throne, and gilded it with pure gold.
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The throne had six steps, and calves in bold relief to the throne behind it, and side pieces on either hand of the place of the seat, and two lions standing by the side pieces,
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and twelve lions standing there on the six steps on either side: it was not so done in any other kingdom.
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And all the vessels made by Solomon were of gold, and the lavers were golden, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; there was no silver, for it was not accounted of in the days of Solomon.
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For Solomon had a ship of Tarshish in the sea with the ships of Hiram: one ship came to the king every three years out of Tarshish, laden with gold and silver, and wrought stones, and hewn stones.
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had put into his heart.
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was also out of Egypt, and the king’s merchants were of Kue; and they received them out of Kue at a price.
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thus, even a chariot for a hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for fifty shekels of silver: and thus for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, they came out by sea.