The Second Book of The Chronicles

2Ch 9:1 And when the queen of She´-ba 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.

2Ch 9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.

2Ch 9:3 And when the queen of She´-ba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,

2Ch 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.

2Ch 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:

2Ch 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.

2Ch 9:7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

2Ch 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.

2Ch 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 She´-ba gave king Solomon.

2Ch 9:10 And the servants also of Hu´ram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from O´-phir, brought al´-gum trees and precious stones.

2Ch 9:11 And the king made of the al´gum 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.

2Ch 9:12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of She´-ba 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.

2Ch 9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

2Ch 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.

2Ch 9:15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shek´-els of beaten gold went to one target.

2Ch 9:16 And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shek´-els of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Leb´-a-non.

2Ch 9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

2Ch 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:

2Ch 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.

2Ch 9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Leb´-a-non were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

2Ch 9:21 For the king’s ships went to Tar´-shish with the servants of Hu´ram: every three years once came the ships of Tar´-shish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

2Ch 9:22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

2Ch 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.

2Ch 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.

2Ch 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.

2Ch 9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Phi-lis´-tines, and to the border of Egypt.

2Ch 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.

2Ch 9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

2Ch 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 A-hi´jah the Shi´-lo-nite, and in the visions of Id´-do the seer against Jer-o-bo´-am the son of Ne´-bat?

2Ch 9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

2Ch 9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Re-ho-bo´-am his son reigned in his stead.