8. Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
9. Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the Lord loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”
10. Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again came such an abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
11. Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.
12. And the king made of the almug wood supports for the house of the Lord and for the king’s house, also lyres and harps for the singers. No such almug wood has come or been seen to this day.
13. And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.
14. Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,
15. besides that which came from the explorers and from the business of the merchants, and from all the kings of the west and from the governors of the land.
16. King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of gold went into each shield.
17. And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
18. The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with the finest gold.