When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart. Mat 12:42Luk 11:311Ki 10:1-132Ch 9:9Gen 10:7Isa 60:61Ki 4:311Sa 1:15 Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her. 1Ki 3:121Ki 4:29Col 2:3Heb 4:12Jas 1:5Jhn 15:15Mrk 4:11Mrk 4:34 When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, 2Ch 3:1-41Ki 10:31Ki 6:1-7Act 11:23 the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the LORD’s house, there was no more spirit in her. 1 1Ch 9:181Ki 10:51Ki 4:22-232Ch 23:132Ki 16:18Dan 10:17Ezk 44:3Ezk 46:2
She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom. 1Ki 10:6 However I didn’t believe their words until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold half of the greatness of your wisdom wasn’t told me. You exceed the fame that I heard! 1Ki 10:71Ki 4:311Ki 4:342Ch 9:5Jhn 20:25-29Psa 31:19Sng 5:9-16Zec 9:17 Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom. 1Ki 10:8Deu 33:9Luk 10:39-42Luk 11:28Pro 10:21Pro 13:20Pro 3:14Pro 3:3 Blessed be the LORD your God, who delighted in you and set you on his throne to be king for the LORD your God, because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.” 2Ch 2:111Ch 29:23Isa 32:1-2Deu 7:8Heb 1:8-9Jer 33:15-161Ch 17:221Ch 28:5
She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents 2 of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There was never before such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. 1Ki 10:101Ki 9:142Ch 9:12Ch 9:24Gen 43:11Psa 72:10Psa 72:15Exo 30:34
The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees 3 and precious stones. 2Ch 8:181Ki 10:111Ki 10:221Ki 9:27-28 The king used algum tree wood to make terraces for the LORD’s house and for the king’s house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers. There were none like these seen before in the land of Judah. 1Ki 10:121Ch 23:51Ch 25:1Psa 150:3-5Psa 92:1-3Rev 5:8 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, more than that which she had brought to the king. So she turned and went to her own land, she and her servants. 1Ki 10:13Eph 3:20Psa 20:4
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents 4 of gold, 1Ki 10:14-28Psa 68:29Psa 72:10Psa 72:15 in addition to that which the traders and merchants brought. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon. Psa 68:29Psa 72:10 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels 5 of beaten gold went to one large shield. 1Ki 10:16-172Ch 12:9-10 He made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three hundred shekels 6 of gold went to one shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. 1Ki 7:2 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. 1Ki 10:18-20Psa 45:8Rev 20:11 There were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests. Gen 49:9-10Num 23:24Num 24:9Rev 5:5 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. There was nothing like it made in any other kingdom. Mat 19:28Rev 21:12 All King 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 not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. 1Ki 10:212Ch 9:27Dan 5:2-3Est 1:7Isa 2:22Jer 31:5 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. 1Ki 10:221Ki 22:482Ch 20:36-37Job 39:13
So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. 2Ch 1:121Ki 3:12-131Ki 4:30-31Psa 89:271Ki 10:23-24Col 2:2-3Mat 12:42 All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. Jas 1:5Jas 3:171Ki 4:34Pro 2:61Co 1:301Co 12:81Ki 3:282Ch 1:10-12 They each brought tribute: vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules every year. 1Ki 10:101Ki 10:251Ki 9:141Sa 10:272Ch 9:9Job 42:11Psa 72:10 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen that he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem. 1Ki 4:261Ki 10:262Ch 1:14Deu 17:16 He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. 1Ki 4:21Gen 15:181Ki 4:24Exo 23:31Dan 7:14Jos 13:2-7Psa 72:8-11Rev 19:16 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland. 2Ch 1:15-171Ch 27:281Ki 10:27-292Ch 9:20Amo 7:14Isa 9:10Job 22:24-25Luk 19:4 They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt and out of all lands. 2Ch 1:161Ki 10:282Ch 9:25Isa 2:7-8Isa 31:1
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren’t they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat? 1Ch 29:291Ki 11:291Ki 11:41-432Ch 12:152Ch 13:222Sa 12:11Ki 1:10-111Ki 1:22-27 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 1Ki 11:42-43 Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in his father David’s city; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. 1Ki 2:101Ki 1:212Sa 7:12