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2 Chronicles 9 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:1 - And the queen of Saba heard of the name of Solomon, and she came to Jerusalem with a very large force, to prove Solomon with hard questions, and she had camels bearing spices in abundance, and gold, and precious stones: and she came to Solomon, and told him all that was in her mind.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:2 - And Solomon told her all her words; and there passed not a word from Solomon which he told her not.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:3 - And the queen of Saba saw the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:4 - and the meat of the tables, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his ministers, and their raiment; and his cupbearers, and their apparel; and the whole-burnt-offerings which he offered up in the house of the Lord; then she was in ecstasy.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:5 - And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in my land concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:6 - Yet I believed not the reports until I came, and my eyes saw: and, behold, the half of the abundance of thy wisdom was not told me: thou hast exceeded the report which I heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:7 - Blessed are thy men, blessed are these thy servants, who stand before thee continually, and hear thy wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:8 - Blessed be the Lord thy God, who took pleasure in thee, to set thee upon his throne for a king, to the Lord thy God: forasmuch as the Lord thy God loved Israel to establish them for ever, therefore he has set thee over them for a king to execute judgment and justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:9 - And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in very great abundance, and precious stones: and there were not any where else such spices as those which the queen of Saba gave king Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:10 - And the servants of Solomon and the servants of Chiram brought gold to Solomon out of Suphir, and pine timber, and precious stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11 - And the king made of the pine timber steps to the house of the Lord, and to the king's house, and harps and lutes for the singers: and such were not seen before in the land of Juda.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:12 - And king Solomon gave to the queen of Saba all that she requested, besides all that she brought to king Solomon: and she returned to her own land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:13 - And the weight of the gold that was brought to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:14 - besides what the men who were regularly appointed and the merchants brought, and all the kings of Arabia and princes of the land: all brought gold and silver to king Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:15 - And king Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold: there were six hundred shekels of pure gold to one shield.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - And three hundred bucklers of beaten gold: the weight of three hundred gold shekels went to one buckler: and the king placed them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:17 - And the king made a great throne of ivory, and he gilded it with pure gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:18 - And there were six steps to the throne, riveted with gold, and elbows on either side of the seat of the throne, and two lions standing by the elbows:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:19 - and twelve lions standing there on the six steps on each side. There was not the like in any other kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:20 - And all king Solomon's vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were covered with gold: silver was not thought anything of in the days of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:21 - For a ship went for the king to Tharsis with the servants of Chiram: once every three years came vessels from Tharsis to the king, laden with gold, and silver, and ivory, and apes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:22 - And Solomon exceeded all other kings both in riches and wisdom.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:24 - And they brought every one his gifts, silver vessels and golden vessels, and raiment, myrrh and spices, horses and mules, a rate every year.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:25 - And Solomon had four thousand mares for chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he put them in the chariot cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:26 - And he ruled over all the kings from the river even to the land of the Philistines, and to the borders of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:27 - And the king made gold and silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as the sycamore trees in the plain for abundance.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:28 - And Solomon imported horses from Egypt, and from every other country.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:29 - And the rest of the acts of Solomon, the first and the last, behold, these are written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the words of Achia the Selonite, and in the visions of Joel the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nabat.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:31 - And Solomon fell asleep, and they buried him in the city of David his father: and Roboam his son reigned in his stead.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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