1 Kings 10

Revised Geneva Translation

10 And the Queen of Sheba, hearing the fame of Solomon concerning the Name of the LORD, came to test him with hard questions.

² And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, camels that bore sweet odors and gold, exceedingly much, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke with him about all that was in her heart.

³ And Solomon answered all her questions. Nothing was hidden from the king which he could not expound to her.

⁴ Then the Queen of Sheba saw all Solomon’s wisdom, and the House that he had built,

⁵ and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and his drinking vessels, and his Burnt Offerings that he offered in the House of the LORD. And it took her breath away.

⁶ And she said to the king, “It was a true word that I heard in my own land of your sayings, and of your wisdom!

⁷ “However, I did not believe this report until I came and had seen it with my eyes. But lo, one half was not told to me. You have more wisdom and goodness than I have heard reported.

⁸ “Your men are happy. Happy are these, your servants, who always stand before you and hear your wisdom.

⁹ “Blessed be the LORD your God, Who loved you, to set you on the throne of Israel because the LORD loved Israel forever, and made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

¹⁰ And she gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and exceedingly many sweet odors, and precious stones. There was never so much such abundance of sweet odors as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

¹¹ Also, the navy of Hiram which carried gold from Ophir, brought a great plenty of Almuggim trees from Ophir, and precious stones.

¹² And the king made pillars for the House of the LORD from the Almuggim trees, and for the king’s palace, and made harps and psalteries for singers. No more such Almuggim trees ever came, nor were any more seen to this day.

¹³ And King Solomon gave to the Queen of Sheba whatever she asked (in addition to that which Solomon gave her of his kingly liberality). So, she returned and went to her own country, she and her servants.

¹⁴ Also, the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,

¹⁵ in addition to that of merchant men and of the merchandises of those who sold spices, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the princes of the country.

¹⁶ And King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold, six hundred shekels of gold per shield:

¹⁷ And three hundred bucklers of beaten gold, three pounds of gold went to one buckler. And the king put them in the house of the wood of Lebanon.

¹⁸ Then the king made a great throne of ivory and covered it with the best gold.

¹⁹ And the throne had six steps. And the top of the throne was round behind. And there were stays on either side, on the place of the throne, and two lions standing by the stays.

²⁰ And there stood twelve lions on the six steps on either side. There was nothing like it made in any kingdom.

²¹ And all King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold. And all the vessels of the house of the wood of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were silver. For it was nothing esteemed in the days of Solomon.

²² For the king had the navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram on the sea. The navy of Tarshish came every three years and brought gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

²³ So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the Earth, both in riches and in wisdom.

²⁴ And all the world sought to see Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.

²⁵ And every man brought his present: vessels of silver and vessels of gold and raiment and armor and sweet odors, horses and mules, from year to year.

²⁶ Then Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. And he had a thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he placed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

²⁷ And the king gave silver in Jerusalem as stones and gave cedars as the wild fig trees that grow abundantly in the plain.

²⁸ Also, Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and fine linen. The king’s merchants received the linen for a price.

²⁹ There came up and went out of Egypt chariots worth six hundred shekels of silver, one horse being a hundred fifty. And thus they brought horses to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram, according to their means.