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And when the queen of Shebaheard of the fame of Solomon, she came to proveSolomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a verygreatcompany, and camels that barespices, and gold in abundance, and preciousstones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
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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.
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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.
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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 GodlovedIsrael, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to dojudgment and justice.
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And she gave the king an hundred and twentytalents of gold, and of spicesgreatabundance, and preciousstones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of ShebagavekingSolomon.
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And the kingmade of the algumtreesterraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king'spalace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none suchseenbefore in the land of Judah.
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And kingSolomongave 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.
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And threehundredshields made he of beatengold:threehundred shekels of goldwent to oneshield. And the kingput them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
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And there were sixsteps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sittingplace, and twolionsstandingby the stays:
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And all the drinkingvessels of kingSolomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of puregold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
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For the king'sshipswent to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every threeyearsoncecame the ships of Tarshishbringinggold, and silver,ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
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And they brought every man his present,vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment,harness, and spices,horses, and mules, a rateyear by year.
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And Solomon had fourthousandstalls for horses and chariots, and twelve*thousandhorsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariotcities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
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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?