Verse 5
2 Chronicles 9:5
Free Bible Version
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She told the king, “It's true what I heard in my own country about your proverbs and your wisdom!
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אֶל הַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ אֱמֶת֙ הַ/דָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁמַ֖עְתִּי בְּ/אַרְצִ֑/י עַל דְּבָרֶ֖י/ךָ וְ/עַל חָכְמָתֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
And she said to the king, "True is the word that I have heard in my country about your matters and about your wisdom."
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Chapter 9 Context
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The queen of Sheba heard how famous Solomon was, so she came to Jerusalem to test him with tough que...
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Solomon answered all her questions. There was nothing he couldn't explain to her.
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When the queen of Sheba saw Solomon's wisdom, and the palace he had built,
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the food on the table, how his officials lived, how his servants operated and how they were dressed,...
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She told the king, “It's true what I heard in my own country about your proverbs and your wisdom!
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But I didn't believe what they told me until I came and saw with my own eyes. In fact, I wasn't told...
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How happy your people must be! How happy those who work for you, who stand here every day listening...
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Praise the Lord your God (Elohim) who is so pleased with you, who placed you on his throne as king t...
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9
She presented the king with one hundred and twenty talents of gold, huge amounts of spices and preci...
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(Hiram and Solomon's men, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum wood and precious stones.
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The king used the algum wood to make steps for the Temple and for the royal palace, and into lyres a...
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King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she wanted, whatever she asked for. This was far more than...
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The weight of gold that Solomon received each year was 666 talents,
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not including that received from traders and merchants. All the kings of Arabia and governors of the...
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15
King Solomon made two hundred shields of hammered gold. Each shield required six hundred shekels of...
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He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold. Each of these shields required three hund...
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The king also made a great throne of ivory, and covered it with pure gold.
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The throne had six steps, with a golden footstool attached. There were armrests on both sides of the...
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19
Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one on opposite ends of each step. Nothing like this had ever b...
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All of King Solomon's drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the Palace of the Forest of L...
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The king had a fleet of ships from Tarshish crewed by Hiram's sailors. Once every three years the sh...
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Year after year, every visitor would bring gifts—articles of silver and gold, clothes, weapons, spic...
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23
Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. He kept them...
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He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, and to the bord...
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The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar wood as plentiful as sycamore-fi...
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The rest of the acts of Solomon, from start to finish, are written in the Records of Nathan the Prop...
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Then Solomon died and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam took over as king...
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