Verse 6
2 Chronicles 9:6
King James Version
6
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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/לֹֽא הֶאֱמַ֣נְתִּי לְ/דִבְרֵי/הֶ֗ם עַ֤ד אֲשֶׁר בָּ֨אתִי֙ וַ/תִּרְאֶ֣ינָה עֵינַ֔/י וְ/הִנֵּה֙ לֹ֣א הֻגַּד לִ֔/י חֲצִ֖י מַרְבִּ֣ית חָכְמָתֶ֑/ךָ יָסַ֕פְתָּ עַל הַ/שְּׁמוּעָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר שָׁמָֽעְתִּי
English Translation
And I did not believe their words until I came, and my eyes saw; and behold, the half of your wisdom was not told to me. You have surpassed the report that I heard.
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Chapter 9 Context
1
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questi...
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2
And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not...
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3
And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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4
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and...
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5
And she said to the king,
It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of...
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6
Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen
it: and, behold, the one ha...
7
Happy
are thy men, and happy
are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear t...
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8
Blessed be the LORD thy God (Elohim), which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne,
to be king...
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9
And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and prec...
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10
And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought...
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11
And the king made
of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king’s palace, an...
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12
And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside
that which...
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13
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talen...
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14
Beside
that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the co...
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15
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred
shekels of beaten gold went to...
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16
And three hundred shields
made he of beaten gold: three hundred
shekels of gold went to one shield....
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17
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
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18
And
there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold,
which were fastened to the throne,...
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19
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the...
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20
And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon
were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the f...
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21
For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the sh...
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22
And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
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23
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God (Elohim)...
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24
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness...
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25
And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he...
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26
And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the b...
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27
And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that...
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28
And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
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29
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last,
are
they not written in the book of Nathan the...
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30
And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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31
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam...
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