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Solomon">a</a></span> with difficult questions. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>She 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.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:2 Lit. was with her heart">b</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Solomon answered all of her questions. Nothing was hidden from Solomon that he did not explain to her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When the queen of Sheba had seen all of Solomon’s wisdom for herself, the palace that he had built, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>the food set at his table, his servants who sat with him, his ministers in attendance and how they were dressed, his personal staff<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:5 Lit. his cupbearers">c</a></span> and how they were dressed, and even his personal stairway by which he went up to the LORD’s Temple, she was breathless!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Everything I heard about your wisdom and what you have to say is true!” she gasped, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“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! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>How blessed are your staff! And how blessed are your employees,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:8 Lit. servants">d</a></span> who serve you continuously and get to listen to your wisdom! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And 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.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then she gave the king 120 talents<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:10 i.e. about 9,000 pounds; a talent weighed about 75 pounds">e</a></span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Hiram’s ships that brought gold from Ophir,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:11 Or from a source of fine gold; cf. 1Chr 29:4">f</a></span> also brought from Ophir<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:11 Or from a source of fine gold; cf. 1Chr 29:4">g</a></span> lots of algum wood<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:11 Or presented Juniper trees">h</a></span> and precious stones. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The king used the algum wood<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:12 Or the Juniper trees">i</a></span> to have supports made for the LORD’s Temple and for the royal palace, as well as lyres and harps for the choir,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:12 Lit. singers">j</a></span> and nothing like that wood<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:12 The Heb. lacks wood">k</a></span> has ever come again or even been seen since right to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>In 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.</p> <p class="heading">Solomon’s Wealth</p><p class="cross_ref">(<a href="http://isv.scripturetext.com/2_chronicles/1.htm">2 Chronicles 1:14-17</a>; 10:13-28)</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Solomon’s annual revenue was 666 talents<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:14 i.e. about 49,950 pounds; a talent weighed about 75 pounds">l</a></span> of gold, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>not including revenue from traders, merchants, and from all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, overlaying each large shield with the gold from 600 gold pieces,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:16 MT does not identify the individual unit of measure">m</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and 300 shields from beaten gold, overlaying each shield with the gold from 300 gold pieces.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:17 MT does not identify the individual unit of measure">n</a></span> The king put them in his palace in the Lebanon forest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Six 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Twelve lions were placed on both sides of the six steps leading to the throne,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:20 The Heb. lacks leading to the throne">o</a></span> and nothing comparable was made for any other<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:20 The Heb. lacks other">p</a></span> kingdoms. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>All of King Solomon’s drinking vessels were made of<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:21 The Heb. lacks made of">q</a></span> gold, and all the vessels in his palace in the Lebanon forest were made of<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:21 The Heb. lacks made of">r</a></span> pure gold. None were of silver, because silver was never considered to be valuable during Solomon’s lifetime, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>because 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>As a result, King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in regards to wealth and wisdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>All the earth continued to seek audiences with Solomon so they could hear the wise things that God had put in his heart. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Everyone kept on bringing gifts on an annual basis, including items made of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Solomon 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The king made silver as common as<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:27 The Heb. lacks as common as">s</a></span> stones in Jerusalem, and made cedar trees as abundant as sycamore<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:27 The sycamore fruit tree native to Israel bears figs">t</a></span> trees in the Shephelah.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:27 i.e. the verdant central lowlands of Israel; cf. Josh 10:40">u</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Solomon imported horses from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s buyers procured them at market price from Kue. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>A chariot from Egypt cost 600 pieces<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:29 The denomination of silver coin is not specified.">v</a></span> of silver, and a horse 150 pieces of silver,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="10:29 The Heb. lacks pieces of silver">w</a></span> but then they were exported to all the Hittite kings and to the Aramean kings.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 10:1 Lit. <i>Solomon</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 10:2 Lit. <i>was with her heart</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 10:5 Lit. <i>his cupbearers</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 10:8 Lit. <i>servants</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 10:10 i.e. about 9,000 pounds; a talent weighed about 75 pounds<br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 10:11 Or <i>from a source of fine gold</i>; cf. 1Chr 29:4<br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 10:11 Or <i>from a source of fine gold</i>; cf. 1Chr 29:4<br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 10:11 Or <i>presented Juniper trees</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 10:12 Or <i>the Juniper trees</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 10:12 Lit. <i>singers</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 10:12 The Heb. lacks <i>wood</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 10:14 i.e. about 49,950 pounds; a talent weighed about 75 pounds<br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 10:16 MT does not identify the individual unit of measure<br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 10:17 MT does not identify the individual unit of measure<br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 10:20 The Heb. lacks <i>leading to the throne</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 10:20 The Heb. lacks <i>other</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 10:21 The Heb. lacks <i>made of</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 10:21 The Heb. lacks <i>made of</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 10:27 The Heb. lacks <i>as common as</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 10:27 The sycamore fruit tree native to Israel bears figs<br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 10:27 i.e. the verdant central lowlands of Israel; cf. 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