11 And the king made walkways of the1 algum 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.
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
13 aThe weight of gold that came to Solomon yearly was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
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.
15 And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.
16 He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold;1 three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the aHouse of the Forest of Lebanon.
17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
18 The throne had six steps, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne; there were1 armrests on either side of the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the armrests.
19 Twelve lions stood there, one on each side of the six steps; nothing like this had been made for any other kingdom.
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.
21 For the king’s ships went to aTarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the2 merchant ships came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and3 monkeys.
22 So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
24 Each man brought his present: articles of silver and gold, garments, aarmor, spices, horses, and mules, at a set rate year by year.
25 Solomon ahad four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.
26 aSo he reigned over all the kings bfrom the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
27 aThe king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar trees bas abundant as the sycamores which are in the lowland.
28 aAnd they brought horses to Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.
Death of Solomon
29 aNow 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 bAhijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of cIddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
30 aSolomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for 2 Chronicles 9:13.
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