1-12 The queen of sheba admires the wisdom of Solomon 13,14 Solomon's revenue in gold 15,16 His targets and shields 17,19 The throne of ivory 20-22 His vessels 23,24 His presents 25 His chariots and horse 26-28 His tributes 29-31 His reign and death

A.M. 3014 B.C. 990
And when 1Ki 10:1,2 Mt 12:42 Lu 11:31

Sheba Ge 10:7,28 25:3

fame 2Ch 1:1,12 1Ki 4:31

questions Ps 72:10,15 Isa 60:6

spices 2Ch 9:9 Mt 2:11

communed 1Sa 1:15 Ps 142:2 Mt 12:34

2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.

all Pr 13:20 18:4 Mr 4:11,34 Joh 15:15 Jas 1:5

there 1Ki 3:12 4:29 Col 2:3 Heb 4:12

3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,

seen the wisdom 1Ki 10:3 Ac 11:23

the house 2Ch 3:1-4:22 1Ki 6:1-7:51

4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

the meat 1Ki 4:22,23 Pr 9:5 Joh 6:53-57

the sitting 1Ki 10:5 Lu 12:37 Re 3:20

cup-bearers. or, butlers Ne 1:11

ascent 2Ch 23:13 2Ki 16:18 1Ch 9:18 Eze 44:3 46:2

there was Ps 119:81 143:7 So 5:8 Da 10:17 Re 1:17

5 And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:

report [heb] word 1Ki 10:6

acts. or, sayings

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.

I believed Joh 20:25-29

the one half 1Ki 10:7 Ps 31:19 Zec 9:17 1Co 2:9 1Jo 3:2

exceedest 2Ch 9:5 1Ki 4:31,34 So 5:9-16

7 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

De 33:9 1Ki 10:8 Ps 27:4 84:10-12 Pr 3:3,14 8:34 10:21 13:20 Lu 10:39-42 11:28

8 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

Blessed 1Ch 29:10,20 Ps 72:18,19 2Co 9:12-15

which delighted 2Sa 15:25,26 1Ki 10:9 Ps 18:19 22:8 Isa 42:1 62:4

because thy God 2Ch 2:11 De 7:8 1Ch 17:22

to do judgment 2Sa 8:15 23:3 1Ki 3:28 Ps 72:2 99:4 Pr 21:3 Isa 9:7 11:1-5 32:1,2 Jer 33:15,16 Heb 1:8,9

9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.

she gave 2Ch 9:24 1Ki 9:14 10:10 Ps 72:10,15

of spices 2Ch 9:1 Ge 43:11 Ex 30:34

Sheba This queen is called {Balkis} by the Arabians, who say she came from the city of Sheba, also called Mareb, in Yemen or Arabia Felix; but the Ethiopians call her {Maqueda}, claim her as their sovereign, and say that her posterity reigned there for a long time. Mr. Bruce has given us the history of her and her descendants from Abyssinian records; and Josephus says that Sheba was the ancient name of the city of {Meroe}, (south of Egypt, and sometimes comprehended in Ethiopia,) and that this princess came from thence. Those who think the princess came from Arabia, rely chiefly on the fact that gold, silver, spices, and precious stones, which were the presents she made to Solomon, are the natural products of that country; and that it may well be placed at the uttermost part of the earth, as it borders on the southern ocean, and formerly they knew no land beyond it.

10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.

brought gold 2Ch 8:18 1Ki 9:27,28 10:22

algum trees 1Ki 10:11

almug-trees

11 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

terrace. or, stairs. [heb] highways
harps 1Ki 10:12 1Ch 23:5 25:1 Ps 92:1-3 150:3-5 Re 5:8

12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

all her desire 1Ki 10:13 Ps 20:4 Eph 3:20

13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

the weight 1Ki 10:13 Ps 20:4 Eph 3:20

14 Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

governors. or, captains

15 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.

two 2Ch 12:9,10 1Ki 10:16,17

16 And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

in the house 1Ki 7:2

17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

1Ki 10:18-20 Ps 45:8 Re 20:11

18 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:

stays [heb] hands
two lions Ge 49:9,10 Nu 23:24 24:9 Re 5:5

19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

twelve lions Mt 19:28 Re 21:12

20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

drinking 1Ki 10:21 Es 1:7 Da 5:2,3

pure [heb] shut up
none were of silver. or, there was no silver in them
it was 2Ch 9:27 Isa 2:22 Jer 31:5

21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

Tarshish Bochart thinks this Tarshish was probably the promontory Cory, on the north of the island of Ceylon, which, according to him, was the land of ophir. That it was name of a place in the East Indies, seems probable from the articles brought thence, and also from the ships sent thither being built at Ezion-geber, on the Red Sea; though Michaelis supposes that the fleet coasted along the shore of Africa, doubling the Cape of Good Hope, and came to Tartessus, in Spain, and thence back again the same way; that this accounts for their three years' voyage out and home and that Spain and the coasts of Africa furnish all the commodities which they brought back. 1Ki 10:22 22:48

Tharshish
ivory. or, elephants' teeth
peacocks Tukkeeyim is rendered taysin in the Targum, () in the Alexandrian MS. of the LXX., and pavos, `peacocks,' in the Vulgate; with which the Syriac, Arabic, and Rabbins agree. This derives confirmation from the fact, that the peacock is called in Malabric, Togei. Job 39:13

22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

passed all the kings 2Ch 1:12 1Ki 3:12,13 4:30,31 10:23,24 Ps 89:27 Mt 12:42 Col 2:2,3

23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

sought 2Ch 9:6,7 1Ki 4:34 Isa 11:2,10

God 2Ch 1:10-12 1Ki 3:28 Pr 2:6 Da 1:17 2:21-23 5:11 Lu 21:15 1Co 1:30 12:8 Eph 1:17 Jas 1:5,16,17 3:17

24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

every man 2Ch 9:9 1Sa 10:27 1Ki 9:14 10:10,25 Job 42:11

25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

2Ch 1:14 De 17:16 1Ki 4:26 10:26

26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

reigned over 1Ki 4:21,24 Ps 72:8-11 Da 7:14 Re 19:16

river. `That is, Euphrates.' Ge 15:18 Ex 23:31 Jos 13:2-7

27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.

the king 2Ch 9:20 1:15-17 1Ki 10:27 Job 22:24,25

made [heb] gave
the sycamore 1Ch 27:28 Ps 78:47 Isa 9:10 Am 7:14 Lu 19:4

28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

brought `Moses,' says Bp. Warburton, `had expressly prohibited the mul- tiplying of horses, (De 17:16;) by which the future king was forbidden to establish a body of calvary, because this could not be effected without sending into Egypt, with which people God had forbidden any communication, as this would be dangerous to religion. When Solomon had violated this law, and multiplied horses to excess, (1ki 4:26,) it was soon attended with those fatal consequences that the law foretold: for this wisest of kings having likewise, in violation of {another} law, married Pharaoh's daughter, (the early fruits of this commerce,) and then, by a repetition of the same crime, but a transgression of another law, had espoused more strange women, (1ki 4:26; 11:1,) they first,in defiance of a {fourth} law, persuaded him to build them idol temples for {their use}; and afterwards, against a {fifth} law, brought him to erect other temples for {his own.}' 2Ch 9:25 1:16 1Ki 10:28 Isa 2:7,8 31:1

29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

the rest 1Ki 11:41-43

book [heb] words.
Nathan 2Sa 7:1-3 12:1,25 1Ki 1:8,10,11,22-27,32-38 1Ch 29:29

Ahijah 1Ki 11:29 14:2

Iddo 2Ch 12:15 13:22

30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

solomon 1Ki 11:42,43

31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

A.M. 3029 B.C. 975
slept 2Sa 7:12 1Ki 1:21 2:10