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2 Chronicles 9 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Queen of Sheba’s Praise of Solomon
The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon
(1 Kin. 10:1–13 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:1 - Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with hard questions, having a very great retinue, camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was in her heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:2 - So Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing so difficult for Solomon that he could not explain it to her.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:4 - the food on his table, the seating of his servants, the service of his waiters and their apparel, his cupbearers and their apparel, and his entryway by which he went up to the house of the LORD, there was no more spirit in her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:5 - Then she said to the king: “It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:6 - “However I did not believe their words until I came and saw with my own eyes; and indeed the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me. You exceed the fame of which I heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:7 - “Happy are your men and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you 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 to be king for the LORD your God! Because your God has loved Israel, to establish them forever, therefore He made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:9 - And she gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones; there never were any spices such as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:10 - Also, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum[fn] wood and precious stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:11 - And the king made walkways of the algum[fn] wood for the house of the LORD and for the king’s house, also harps and stringed instruments for singers; and there were none such as these seen before in the land of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:12 - Now King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all she desired, whatever she asked, much more than she had brought to the king. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
Solomon’s Great Wealth
(1 Kin. 10:14–29; 2 Chr. 1:14–17 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:13 - The weight of gold that came to Solomon yearly was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:15 - And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels[fn] of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:18 - The throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne; there were armrests on either side of the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the armrests.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:19 - Twelve lions stood there, one on each side of the six steps; nothing like this had been made for any other kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:20 - All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Not one was silver, for this was accounted as nothing 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 Hiram.[fn] Once every three years the merchant ships[fn] came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and monkeys.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:22 - So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth 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 - Each man brought his present: articles of silver and gold, garments, armor, spices, horses, and mules, at a set rate year by year.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:26 - So he reigned over all the kings from the River[fn] to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:27 - The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar trees as abundant as the sycamores which are in the lowland.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:28 - And they brought horses to Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.
Death of Solomon
(1 Kin. 11:41–43 )

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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, 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 in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:31 - Then Solomon rested with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
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NKJV Footnotes
Or almug (compare 1 Kings 10:11, 12)
Or almug (compare 1 Kings 10:11, 12)
Or three minas (compare 1 Kings 10:17)
Hebrew Huram (compare 1 Kings 10:22)
Literally ships of Tarshish (deep-sea vessels)
Or peacocks
That is, the Euphrates
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