Verse 6
2 Chronicles 9:6
Literal Standard Version
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and I have given no credence to their words until I have come and my eyes see, and behold, there has not been declared to me the half of the abundance of your wisdom—you have added to the report 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
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And the queen of Sheba has heard of the fame of Solomon, and comes to Jerusalem to try Solomon with...
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and Solomon declares all her matters to her, and there has not been hid a thing from Solomon that he...
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And the queen of Sheba sees the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he has built,
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and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his ministers, and t...
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And she says to the king, “The word is true that I heard in my land concerning your matters and conc...
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and I have given no credence to their words until I have come and my eyes see, and behold, there has...
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O the blessedness of your men, and the blessedness of your servants—these—who are standing before yo...
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Let your God (Elohim) YHWH be blessed who has delighted in you to put you on His throne for king for...
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9
And she gives to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and...
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And also, servants of Huram, and servants of Solomon, who brought in gold from Ophir, have brought i...
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And the king makes the algum-trees into staircases for the house of YHWH, and for the house of the k...
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And King Solomon has given to the queen of Sheba all her desire that she asked, apart from that whic...
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And the weight of the gold that is coming to Solomon in one year is six hundred and sixty-six talent...
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apart from what the tourists and the merchants are bringing in; and all the kings of Arabia, and the...
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And King Solomon makes two hundred bucklers of alloyed gold—he causes six hundred shekels of alloyed...
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and three hundred shields of alloyed gold—he causes three hundred shekels of gold to go up on the on...
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And the king makes a great throne of ivory, and overlays it with pure gold;
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and six steps are to the throne, and a footstool of gold, and they are fastened to the throne; and p...
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and twelve lions are standing there on the six steps on this side and on that side: it has not been...
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And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon are of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Fo...
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for ships of the king are going to Tarshish with servants of Huram: once in three years the ships of...
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And King Solomon becomes greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom;
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and all the kings of the earth are seeking the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God (Eloh...
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and they are each bringing in his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, har...
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And there are four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen for Solomon...
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And he is ruling over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the b...
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And the king makes the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he has made the cedars as sycamores that a...
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and they are bringing out horses from Egypt to Solomon, and from all the lands.
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And the rest of the matters of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written beside the matt...
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And Solomon reigns in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years,
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and Solomon lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of his father David, and his son Re...
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