Help QuickNav Adv. Options
KJV

KJV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

2 Chronicles 9 :: King James Version (KJV)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Visit of the Queen of Sheba

(1Ki 10:1–13 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:1 - And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:2 - And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:3 - And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:4 - And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:5 - And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:6 - Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:7 - Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:8 - Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:9 - And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:10 - And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11 - And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:12 - And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

Solomon's Wealth and Power

(1Ki 10:14–29; 2Ch 1:14–17 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:13 - Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:14 - Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:15 - And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:17

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:18 - And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:19 - And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:20 - And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:21

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:22 - And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:23

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:24 - And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:25 - And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:26

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:27 - And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:28

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:28 - And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
(1Ki 11:41–43 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:29 - Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:30

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

Death of Solomon

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:31 - And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
See the KJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
KJV

The Authorized Version or King James Version (KJV), 1611, 1769.
Outside of the United Kingdom, the KJV is in the public domain. Within the United Kingdom, the rights to the KJV are vested in the Crown.

For more information on this translation, see the KJV Preface.

Pericope

Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

New American Standard Bible
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
KJV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
KJV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

2 Chronicles Chapter 9 — Additional Translations:

New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras