1THE queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame and came to test him with enigmatic questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large retinue, camels laden with spices, much gold, and precious stones. When she came to Solomon, she talked to him about everything she had on her mind.
2Solomon answered all her questions; not one of them was too hard for him to answer.
3When the queen of Sheba observed the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
4the food on his table, the courtiers sitting around him, his attendants and his cupbearers in their livery standing behind, and the stairs by which he went up to the house of the LORD, she was overcome with amazement.
5She said to the king, “The account which I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom was true,
6but I did not believe what they told me until I came and saw for myself. Indeed, I was not told half of the greatness of your wisdom; you surpass all I had heard of you.
7Happy are your wives, happy these courtiers of yours who are in attendance on you every day and hear your wisdom!
8Blessed be the LORD your God who has delighted in you and has set you on his throne as his king; because in his love your God has elected Israel to make it endure for ever, he has made you king over it to maintain law and justice.”
9She presented the king with a hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There had never been any spices to equal those which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
10Besides all this, the servants of Huram and of Solomon, who had brought gold from Ophir, brought also cargoes of algum-wood and precious stones.
11The king used the wood to make stands for the house of the LORD and for the palace, as well as lyres and lutes for the singers. The like of them had never before been seen in the land of Judah.
12King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba whatever she desired and asked for, in addition to his gifts in return for what she had brought him. Then she departed with her retinue and went back to her own land.
13The weight of gold which Solomon received in any one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents,
14in addition to the tolls levied on merchants and on traders who imported goods; all the kings of Arabia and the regional governors also brought gold and silver to the king.
15King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold, and six hundred shekels of gold went to the making of each one;
16he also made three hundred bucklers of beaten gold, and three hundred shekels of gold went to the making of each buckler. The king put these into the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
17The king also made a great throne inlaid with ivory and overlaid with pure gold.
18Six steps and a footstool for the throne were all encased in gold. There were armrests on each side of the seat, with a lion standing beside each of them,
19while twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any monarch.
20All Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the plate in the House of the Forest of Lebanon was of red gold; silver was reckoned of no value in the days of Solomon.
21The king had a fleet of ships plying to Tarshish with Huram's men; once every three years this fleet of merchantmen came home, bringing gold and silver, ivory, apes, and monkeys.
22Thus King Solomon outdid all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom,
23and all the kings of the earth courted him, to hear the wisdom with which God had endowed his mind.
24Each one brought his gift with him, vessels of silver and gold, garments, perfumes and spices, horses and mules in annual tribute.
25Solomon had standing for four thousand horses and chariots, and twelve thousand cavalry horses; he stationed some in the chariot-towns, while others he kept at hand in Jerusalem.
26He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and the border of Egypt.
27He made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and cedar as plentiful as the sycomore-fig is in the Shephelah.
28Horses were imported from Egypt and from all countries for Solomon.
29The rest of the acts of Solomon's reign, from first to last, are recorded in the history of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of Ahijah of Shiloh, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat.
30Solomon ruled in Jerusalem over the whole of Israel for forty years.
31Then he rested with his forefathers and was buried in the city of David his father; he was succeeded by his son Rehoboam.
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