These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Chronicles 9
Tanakh 31 verses
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And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of , she came to prove with hard questions at , with a very great train, and camels that bore spices and gold in abundance, and precious stones; and when she was come to , she spoke with him of all that was in her .
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And told her all her questions; and there was not any thing hid from which he told her not.
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And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of , and the house that he had built,
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- 4 and the food 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 ; there was no more in her.
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And she said to the : ‘It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom.
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- 6 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me; thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
- 7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, that stand continually before thee, and thy wisdom.
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Blessed be thy , who delighted in thee, to set thee on His throne, to be for thy ; because thy loved , to establish them for ever, therefore made He thee over them, to do justice and .’
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2 Chronicles 2:11 1 Chronicles 29:23 Deuteronomy 7:8 1 Chronicles 28:5 Proverbs 21:3 1 Kings 3:28 2 Corinthians 9:12-15 Psalm 18:19 Psalm 99:4 2 Samuel 23:3 1 Chronicles 29:10 Psalm 22:8 2 Samuel 15:25-26 Isaiah 32:1-2 Isaiah 11:1-5 Psalm 72:2 1 Chronicles 29:20 2 Samuel 8:15 1 Kings 10:9 Psalm 72:18-19 1 Chronicles 17:22 Hebrews 1:8-9 Isaiah 9:7 Jeremiah 33:15-16 Isaiah 42:1 Isaiah 62:4 -
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And she gave the a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones; neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to .
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And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of that brought gold from Ophir, brought sandal-wood and precious stones.
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And the made of the sandal-wood paths for the house of , and for the king’s house, and harps and psalteries for the singers; and there were none such seen before in the land of .
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And gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the . So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
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Now the weight of gold that came to in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
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beside that which the traffickers and merchants brought; and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to .
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And made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target;
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three hundred shields of beaten gold also: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield; and the put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
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Moreover the made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
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And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and arms on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms.
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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 .
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And all Solomon’s drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was nothing accounted of in the days of .
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For the had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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So exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
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- 23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of , to his wisdom, which had put in his .
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And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
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And had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the at .
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And he ruled over all the kings from the River even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of .
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- 27 And the made silver to be in as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore-trees that are in the Lowland, for abundance.
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And they brought horses for out of , and out of all lands.
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- 29 Now the rest of the acts of , first and last, are they not written in the words of Nathan the , and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Jedo the concerning the son of Nebat?
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And reigned in over all forty years.
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And slept with his fathers; they buried him in the city of his father; and his son reigned in his stead.
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