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2 Chronicles 9 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Visit of the Queen of Sheba

(1Ki 10:1–13 )

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When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with riddles. She was accompanied by a very large number of attendants, with camels bearing spices (balsam oil) and a large amount of gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was on her mind.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:2 - Solomon [fn]answered all her questions; nothing was hidden from him which he did not make clear to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:3 - So when the queen of Sheba saw the [depth of] Solomon’s wisdom, and the house which he had built,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:4 - and the food of his table, the [vast] seating order of his officials, the attendance and service of his ministers and their attire, his cupbearers and their attire, and his [fn]stairway by which he went up to the house of the LORD, she was breathless.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:5 - She said to the king, “The report which I heard in my own land regarding your [accomplishments and your] words and your wisdom was true,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:6 - but I did not believe the reports until I came and saw it with my own eyes. Behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told to me; you have surpassed the report that I heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:7 - “Blessed and fortunate are your people, how blessed and fortunate are these servants of yours who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:8 - “Blessed be the LORD your God, who delighted in you, setting you on His throne as king for the LORD your God; because your God loved Israel, establishing them forever, therefore He made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:9 - Then she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, a very large amount of spices (balsam oil) and precious stones; there was no such spice [anywhere] like that which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

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The servants of Huram and those of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought almug trees and precious stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11 - From the almug timber the king made [fn]stairways for the house of the LORD and for the king’s palace, and lyres and harps for the singers; none like that was seen before in the land of Judah.

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King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all [the things] she desired, whatever she asked, [fn]besides a return for what she had brought to the king. So she returned to her own land with her servants.

Solomon’s Wealth and Power

(1Ki 10:14–29; 2Ch 1:14–17 )

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Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:14 - besides what the traders and merchants brought; and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:15 - King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold, using six hundred shekels of beaten gold on each large shield.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - And he made three hundred [smaller] shields of beaten gold, using three hundred shekels of gold on each shield; and the king put them in the [fn]house of the Forest of Lebanon.

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Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:18 - There were six steps to the throne and a golden footstool attached to the throne, and arms on each side of the seat, with two lions standing beside the arms.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:19 - Also, twelve lions were standing there, one on each side of the six steps. Nothing like it had ever been made for any [other] kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:20 - 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; silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:21 - For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

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So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:23 - And all the kings of the earth were seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put into his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:24 - Each man brought his gift, articles of silver and gold, garments, weapons, spices, horses and mules, so much year by year.

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Now Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities or with the king at Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:26 - He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:27 - The king made silver in Jerusalem as common as stones, and cedar wood as plentiful as the [fn]sycamore-fig trees that are in the [fn]lowland.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:28 - And they were importing horses for Solomon from Egypt and from all [the other] countries.
(1Ki 11:41–43 )

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Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from the first to the last, are they not written in the records of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:30 - Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel.

Death of Solomon

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:31 - And Solomon slept with his fathers [in death]; he was buried in the city of his father David. Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
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Lit told…her words.
Or burnt offerings which he offered at.
Or terraces.
Following tradition, Solomon wanted his royal visitor to leave with a greater gift than she had given him.
A building in Jerusalem whose purpose is not mentioned. Since it had utensils for dining (v 20), however, it may have been a separate banquet hall. It is described in 1 Kin 7:2-5 and was larger than the temple.
This tree, ficus sycomorus, is native to Egypt and Asia Minor and produces an edible fruit similar but inferior to the common fig.
Heb shephelah.
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