Verse 7
1 Kings 10:7
Geneva Bible
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Howebeit I beleeued not this report till I came, and had seene it with mine eyes: but lo, ye one halfe was not tolde mee: for thou hast more wisedome and prosperitie, then I haue heard by report.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/לֹֽא הֶאֱמַ֣נְתִּי לַ/דְּבָרִ֗ים עַ֤ד אֲשֶׁר בָּ֨אתִי֙ וַ/תִּרְאֶ֣ינָה עֵינַ֔/י וְ/הִנֵּ֥ה לֹֽא הֻגַּד לִ֖/י הַ/חֵ֑צִי הוֹסַ֤פְתָּ חָכְמָה֙ וָ/ט֔וֹב אֶל הַ/שְּׁמוּעָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁמָֽעְתִּי
English Translation
And I did not believe the words until I came and my eyes saw, and behold, it was not told to me; you have added wisdom and goodness to the report that I heard.
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Chapter 10 Context
1
And the Queene of Sheba hearing ye fame of Salomon (concerning the Name of the Lord) came to proue h...
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And she came to Ierusalem with a verie great traine, and camels that bare sweete odours, and golde e...
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And Salomon declared vnto her all her questions: nothing was hid from the King, which he expounded n...
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Then the Queene of Sheba sawe all Salomons wisedome, and the house that he had built,
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And the meate of his table, and the sitting of his seruants, and the order of his ministers, and the...
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6
And shee sayde vnto the King, It was a true worde that I heard in mine owne lande of thy sayings, an...
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7
Howebeit I beleeued not this report till I came, and had seene it with mine eyes: but lo, ye one hal...
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Happy are the men, happie are these thy seruants, which stande euer before thee, and heare thy wised...
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9
Blessed be the Lord thy God (Elohim), which loued thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel, because...
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10
And she gaue the King sixe score talents of golde, and of sweete odours exceeding much, and precious...
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11
The nauie also of Hiram (that caried gold from Ophir) brought likewise great plentie of Almuggim tre...
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12
And the King made of ye Almuggim trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for ye Kings palace, a...
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13
And King Salomon gaue vnto the Queene of Sheba, whatsoeuer she would aske, besides that, which Salom...
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14
Also the weight of golde, that came to Salomon in one yeere, was sixe hundreth three score and six t...
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15
Besides that he had of marchant men and of the marchandises of them that solde spices, and of all th...
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16
And King Salomon made two hundreth targets of beaten golde, sixe hundreth shekels of gold went to a...
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17
And three hundreth shieldes of beaten golde, three pound of gold went to one shielde: and the King p...
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18
Then the King made a great throne of yuorie, and couered it with the best golde.
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19
And the throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind, and there were stayes on e...
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20
And there stoode twelue lions on the sixe steps on either side: there was not the like made in any k...
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21
And all King Salomons drinking vessels were of golde, and all the vessels of the house of the woode...
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22
For the King had on the sea the nauie of Tharshish with the nauie of Hiram: once in three yere came...
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23
So King Salomon exceeded all the kings of the earth both in riches and in wisedome.
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24
And al the world sought to see Salomon, to heare his wisedome, which God (Elohim) had put in his hea...
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25
And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of golde, and raiment, and ar...
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26
Then Salomon gathered together charrets and horsemen: and he had a thousand and foure hundreth chare...
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27
And the King gaue siluer in Ierusalem as stones, and gaue cedars as the wilde figtrees that growe ab...
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28
Also Salomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and fine linen: the Kings marchants receiued the linen...
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There came vp and went out of Egypt some charet, worth sixe hundreth shekels of siluer: that is, one...
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