1But also the queen of Sheba, when the fame of Solomon was heard, came in the name of the Lord to assay him in dark and doubtful questions.

2And she entered with much fellow-ship and riches into Jerusalem, and with camels bearing sweet smelling things, and gold greatly without number, and precious stones; and she came to king Solomon, and spake to him all things which she had in her heart.

3And Solomon taught her all [the] words which she had put forth; no word was, that might be hid from the king, and which he answered not to her.

4And the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had builded,

5and the meats of his table, and the dwelling places of his servants, and the orders of the men serving him, and the clothes of them, and the butlers, and the burnt sacrifices which he offered in the house of the Lord; and she had no more spirit.

6And she said to the king, The word is true, that I heard in my land, of thy words, and of thy wisdom;

7and I believed not to men telling to me, till I myself came, and saw with mine eyes, and proved that the half part was not told to me; thy wisdom is more and thy works, than the fame that I heard.

8Thy men be blessed, and thy servants be blessed, these that stand before thee ever[more], and hear thy wisdom.

9Blessed be thy Lord God, whom thou pleasedest, and hath set thee on the throne of Israel; for the Lord loved Israel without end, and hath ordained thee king, that thou shouldest do doom and rightfulness [or rightwiseness].

10Therefore she gave to the king sixscore talents of gold, and full many sweet smelling things, and precious stones; so many sweet smelling things were no more brought, as those which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

11But also the ships of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir full many trees of thyine, and precious stones.

12And king Solomon made of the trees of thyine undersettings of the house of the Lord, and of the king’s house, and harps, and citoles to singers; such trees of thyine were not brought there, neither seen again, till into this present day.

13Soothly king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all things which she would have, and asked of him, besides these things which he had given to her by the king’s gift will-fully; and she turned again, and went into her land with her servants.

14Forsooth the weight of gold, that was offered to Solomon by each year, was of six hundred and six and sixty talents of gold,

15besides that which the men that were on the tollages, that is, rents of things borne about in the land, and that merchants, and all men selling shields, and that all the kings of Arabia, and the dukes of the land, gave.

16And king Solomon made two hundred shields of purest gold; he gave six hundred shekels of gold into the plates of one shield;

17and he made three hundred buck-lers of proved gold; three hundred talents of gold covered one buckler. And the king put those bucklers in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

18Also king Solomon made a great throne of ivory, and covered it with full fine gold;

19and the throne had six degrees; and the highness of the throne was round in the hinder part; and twain [or two] hands were on this side and on that side, holding the seat, and two lions stood beside each hand;

20and twelve little lions standing on [the] six degrees, on this side and on that side; such a work was not made in all realms.

21But also all the vessels, of which king Solomon drank, were of gold, and all the appurtenance of the house of the forest of Lebanon was of purest gold; silver was not used at all, neither it was areckoned of any price in the days of Solomon.

22For the ships of the king went once by three years with the ships of Hiram into Tharshish, and brought from thence gold, and silver, and teeth of elephants, and apes, and peacocks.

23Therefore king Solomon was magnified above all [the] kings of [the] earth in riches and wisdom.

24And all earth desired to see the cheer of Solomon, to hear the wisdom of him, which wisdom God had given in his heart.

25And all men brought gifts to him, vessels of gold, and of silver, clothes, and armours [or arms] of battle, and sweet smelling things, and horses, and mules, by each year.

26And Solomon gathered together chariots, and horsemen; and a thou-sand and four hundred chariots were made to him, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he disposed them by [the] strengthened cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.

27And he made, that so great abundance of silver was in Jerusalem, how great was also of stones; and he gave the multitude of cedars as syca-mores, that grow in field places.

28And the horses of Solomon were led out of Egypt, and of Coa; for merchants of the king bought them of Coa, and brought them to him, for [the] price ordained.

29For a chariot went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty shekels; and by this manner all the kings of Hittites, and of Syria, sold horses.