2 Chronicles 9
9:1And the queen of Sheba heard the name Solomon, and she came to test him with enigmas, unto Jerusalem, with an exceedingly heavy force, and camels carrying aromatics, and gold in multitude, and valuable stone. And she came to Solomon, and she spoke to him all as much as was in her soul.
9:2And Solomon announced to her all her words, and not a word went by from Solomon which he did not report to her.
9:3And the queen of Sheba beheld the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he built,
9:4and the foods of his tables, and the form of his servants, and the station of his ministers, and their garments, and his wine servers, and their uniform, and the whole burnt-offerings which he offered in the house of the lord; and there was no breath in her any longer.
9:5And she said to the king, The word is true which I heard in my land concerning your words, and concerning your wisdom.
9:6And I did not trust in the words until of which time I came and beheld with my eyes. And behold, the half was not reported to me of the magnitude of your wisdom being added over the hearing which I heard.
9:7Blessed are your men, blessed are these your servants, the ones standing beside you always, and hearing your wisdom.
9:8May the lord your God be for a blessing, who wanted by you to put you upon his throne for a king to your God; in that the lord your God loved Israel, to establish it into the eon, and he put you over them as king, to execute equity and righteousness.
9:9And she gave to the king a hundred twenty talents of gold, and aromatics in very great multitude, and valuable stone. And there was not any according to those aromatics which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
9:10And the servants of Hiram, and the servants of Solomon brought gold to Solomon from out of Ophir, and wood of pines, and valuable stone.
9:11And the king made ascents from the wood of pines for the house of the lord, and for the house of the king, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers. And there was not seen such as these before in the land of Judah.
9:12And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her wants, which she asked for, outside of all what she brought to king Solomon. And she returned unto her land.
9:13And was the weight of the gold being brought to Solomon in one year -- six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
9:14besides what the men arranging and trading brought. And all the kings of Arabia, and the satraps of the land brought gold and silver to king Solomon.
9:15And king Solomon made two hundred shields hammered out gold, with six hundred weights of pure gold being used upon the one shield.
9:16And three hundred shields of hammered out gold of three hundred weights of gold bore upon each shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
9:17And the king made a great ivory throne of tusks, and he gilded it in unadulterated gold.
9:18And there were six stairs to the throne being bonded with gold, and he placed a footstool in gold under the throne, and armrest angles on this side and on that side upon the chair of the throne, and two lions standing by the armrest angles.
9:19And twelve lions standing there upon the six stairs on this side and on that side; there was not such in any kingdom.
9:20And all the items of king Solomon were gold, and all the items of the house of the forest of Lebanon were overtaken with gold. Silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.
9:21For ships belonging to the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once in three years boats came from Tarshish to the king being full of gold, and silver, and tusks of ivory, and apes.
9:22And Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the earth, even in riches and wisdom.
9:23And all the kings of the earth sought the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom, of which God put in his heart.
9:24And they brought, each one his gifts -- items made of silver, and items of gold, and clothes, weapons, balsam, and spices, horses, and mules, accordingly year by year.
9:25And there were to Solomon four thousand female horses for chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And he stationed them in the cities of the chariots, and with the king in Jerusalem.
9:26And he was leader of all the kings from the river and unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt.
9:27And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made the cedars as the sycamine trees, the ones in the plain in multitude.
9:28And the delivery of the horses from out of Egypt to Solomon even was from all the lands.
9:29And the rest of the words of Solomon, the first and the last, behold are not these written by the words of Nathan the prophet, and by the words of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
9:30And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
9:31And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they entombed him in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned instead of him.