Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 981

9-7 HISTORY OF HOUSE OF DAVID.—II. CHRON. 9-29 trust to their words, until I came, and my eyes saw it! And indeed they did not tell me half the extent of your acquirements! You surpass reports that I heard! ‘ These Princes and your Ministers

are happy who always stand before you and hear your wisdom. Let your Evan-Lrvmo Gon be thanked, Who has been pleased to place you on His Throne, to govern for your EVER- mvmc Gon. Your Gon must have loved Israel, and would fix it to Him- self for ever, when He made you King over it, to execute justice and Rizht l ” Eb: Queen nf §l1zlm’s Qrzxzntx in xo rx rz $¤lnmmt. Then she gave the King a. hundred

stones. -— There were never such Sheba gave to King Solomon! wood, and precious stones. Even-mvmc, and the King’s Palace, and Harps, and Lutes for the singers, seen before in the land of judah. Sulumurt giizzs §rzsznis is ily: Queen uf Slyzlm. and twenty talents of Gold, and a quantity of spices, and precious spices as those which the Queen of The servants of Huram also, and

the servants of Solomon, who brought Gold from Aufer, brought Algum From the Algumi wood the King

made brackets in the Temple of the for nothing of that kind had been But King Solomon gave to the

Queen of Sheba all she desired, whatever she asked, except what she had brought to the King. Then she departed, and she and her attendants returned to her own country. Snlnmnxfz Wealth. The weight of Gold that came to

Solomon each year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of Gold ; beside what the Merchants,_and Commercial duties brought in, and the Gold and Silver that the Kings of Arabia, and the Governors of Provinces contri- buted to Solomon. King Solomon, consequently, made three hundred

Algum·wood, ' = Sandal-wood. S Erey g ee rof. Lees' Hebrew Lexicon on the word. In Arabic this perfurned wood is named Q -—- . F. targets of wrought Gold. Six hundred of wrought Gold went to one target. And three hundred shields of wrought Gold. Three hundred of Gold went to one shield, and he put them in the Palace of Lebanon. The King also made a great Throne

of Ivory, and plated it with pure Gold; and six steps to the Throne, with a foot-stool of Gold fastened to the throne, and arms on each side at the seat, with two lions standing at the side of the arms. Twelve lions also stood, there on the six steps, one on each side. None such were ever made in any Kingdoms. And all King Solomon's drinhng

cups were of Gold, and all the furni· ture of the Forest-Palace of Lebanon were of due Gold. Silver and brass were thought nothing of in the daysof Solomon !—for the ships of the King went to Tharshish, at the same time as the servants of Huram, for athree years’ voyage. These ships brought from Tharshish cargoes of Gold, and Silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. Thus Solomon was greater than all

the kings of the earth, in wealth, and science. And all the kings of the land sought the presence of Solomon to hear the sciences, that GOD had placed in his mind, and each brought as his tribute, articles of silver, and articles of gold, or fabrics, or armour, or spices, with horses and mules, every year, yearly. For Solomon had four thousand stables for horses and Chariots, and twelve thousand Cavalry, whom he lodged in the Chariot Barracks, or with the King in jerusalem. And he was Emperor over all the kings from the River} to the country of the Philishtim, and as far as the border of the Mitzeraim. This king made silver in jerusalem like stones, and he planted Cedars like sycamores on the plain for num- ber; and they brought horses to Solomon from Mitzeraim and from all other countries. (975 B-C-) Sulummt §izs. The rest of the acts of Solomon,

the first and the last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the Reciter ? and in the Recitals of Akhiah the Shilouitel and in the x6 18 21 22 26 28 Nora —-Ch. g, v. 26. The Euphrates. F. F. 081