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1 Kings 10:6-16 Modern English Version (MEV)

6. She said to the king, “What I heard in my own land about your acts and your wisdom was true!

7. I did not believe it until I came and saw it with my own eyes! In fact, I was not even told half. Your wisdom and prosperity are greater than the stories I heard!

8. Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!

9. Blessed be the Lord your God, who delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel, because the Lord loved Israel forever; therefore He made you king in order to execute judgment and justice.”

10. She gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold and a great amount of spices and precious stones. No one gave as many spices as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

11. The ships of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir a large quantity of almug wood and precious stones.

12. The king made pillars for the house of the Lord out of the almug trees and harps also and psalteries for singers for the king’s house. Never before had such almug wood been brought, nor has any such been seen to this day.

13. King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all she desired, no matter what she asked for, in addition to what Solomon gave her from his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.

14. Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold.

15. In addition, he collected from the merchantmen and the traffic of the spice merchants and from all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country.

16. King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold made of six hundred shekels of gold each.

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