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ministries: and the Levites in their order to give and their garments, and the victims which he
praise, and minister before the priests according offered in the house of the Lord: there was no
to the duty of every day: and the porters in their more spirit in her, she was so astonished.
divisions by gate and gate: for so David the man 5 And she said to the king: The word is true
of God had commanded. which I heard in my country of thy virtues and
15 And the priests and Levites departed not wisdom.
from the king’s commandments, as to any thing 6 I did not believe them that told it, until I
that he had commanded, and as to the keeping came, and my eyes had seen, and I had proved
of the treasures. that scarce one half of thy wisdom had been
16 Solomon had all charges prepared, from the told me: thou hast exceeded the same with thy
day that he founded the house of the Lord, until virtues.
the day wherein he finished it. 7 Happy are thy men, and happy are thy ser-
17 Then Solomon went to Asiongaber, and to vants, who stand always before thee, and hear
Ailath, on the coast of the Red Sea, which is in thy wisdom.
the land of Edom. 8 Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath been
18 And Hiram sent him ships by the hands of pleased to set thee on his throne, king of the Lord
his servants, and skilful mariners, and they went thy God. Because God loveth Israel, and will
with Solomon’s servants to Ophir, and they took preserve them forever: therefore hath he made
thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
brought it to king Solomon. 9 And she gave to the king a hundred and
twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abun-
dance, and most precious stones: there were no
Chapter 9 such spices as these which the queen of Saba gave
to king Solomon.
And when the queen of Saba heard of the fame 10 And the servants also of Hiram, with the
of Solomon, she came to try him with hard ques- servants of Solomon, brought gold from Ophir,
tions at Jerusalem, with great riches, and camels, and thyine trees, and most precious stones:
which carried spices, and abundance of gold, and 11 And the king made of the thyine trees stairs
precious stones. And when she was come to in the house of the Lord, and in the king’s house,
Solomon, she proposed to him all that was in and harps and psalteries for the singing men:
her heart. never were there seen such trees in the land of
2 And Solomon explained to her all that she Juda.
proposed: and there was not any thing that he 12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of
did not make clear unto her. Saba all that she desired, and that she asked,
3 And when she had seen these things, to wit, and many more things than she brought to him:
the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he so she returned, and went to her own country
had built, with her servants.
4 And the meats of his table, and the dwelling 13 And the weight of the gold, that was
places of his servants, and the attendance of his brought to Solomon every year, was six hundred
officers, and their apparel, his cupbearers also, and sixty-six talents of gold: