1 Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.
2 And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which he did not make clear to her.
3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,
4 And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
5 And she said to the king, The account which was given to me in my country of your acts and your wisdom was true.
6 But I had no faith in what was said about you, till I came and saw for myself; and truly, word was not given me of half your great wisdom; you are much greater than they said.
7 Happy are your wives and happy these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.
8 Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.
9 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never had such spices been seen as the queen of Sheba gave to Solomon.
10 And the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with sandal-wood and jewels.
11 And with the sandal-wood the king made steps for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody; never before had such been seen in the land of Judah.
12 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.
13 Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;
14 And in addition to what he got from traders of different sorts, all the kings of Arabia and the rulers of the country gave gold and silver to Solomon.
15 And King Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.
16 And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, using three hundred shekels of gold for every cover, and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.
17 Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.
18 There were six steps up to it, and a foot-rest of gold fixed to it, and arms on the two sides of the seat, with two lions at the side of the arms.
19 And twelve lions were placed on one side and on the other side on the six steps: there was nothing like it in any kingdom.
20 All King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold: no one gave a thought to silver in the days of Solomon.
21 For the king had Tarshish-ships sailing with the servants of Huram: once every three years the Tarshish-ships came back with gold and silver, ivory and monkeys and peacocks.
22 And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.
23 And all the kings of the earth came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put into his heart.
24 And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses and beasts for transport, regularly year by year.
25 Solomon had four thousand buildings for his horses and his war-carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king in Jerusalem.
26 And he was ruler over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the limit of Egypt.
27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.
28 They got horses for Solomon from Egypt and from every land.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not recorded in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the words of Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh, and in the visions of Iddo the seer about Jeroboam, the son of Nebat?
30 Solomon was king over Israel in Jerusalem for forty years.
31 And Solomon went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father; and Rehoboam his son became king in his place.
1 Tendo a rainha de Sabá ouvido da fama de Salomão, veio a Jerusalém para prová-lo por enigmas; trazia consigo uma grande comitiva, e camelos carregados de especiarias, e ouro em abundância, e pedras preciosas; e vindo ter com Salomão, falou com ele de tudo o que tinha no seu coração.
2 E Salomão lhe respondeu a todas as perguntas; não houve nada que Salomão não lhe soubesse explicar.
3 Vendo, pois, a rainha de Sabá a sabedoria de Salomão, e a casa que ele edificara,
4 e as iguarias da sua mesa, e o assentar dos seus oficiais, e as funções e os trajes dos seus servos, e os seus copeiros e os trajes deles, e os holocaustos que ele oferecia na casa do Senhor, ficou estupefata.
5 Então disse ao rei: Era verdade o que ouvi na minha terra acerca dos teus feitos e da tua sabedoria.
6 Todavia eu não o acreditava, até que vim e os meus olhos o viram; e eis que não me contaram metade da grandeza da tua sabedoria; sobrepujaste a fama que ouvi.
7 Bem-aventurados os teus homens! Bem-aventurados estes teus servos, que estão sempre diante de ti, e ouvem a tua sabedoria!
8 Bendito seja o Senhor teu Deus, que se agradou de ti, colocando-te sobre o seu trono, para ser rei pelo Senhor teu Deus! Porque teu Deus amou a Israel, para o estabelecer perpetuamente, por isso te constituiu rei sobre eles, para executares juízo e justiça.
9 Então ela deu ao rei cento e vinte talentos de ouro, e especiarias em grande abundância, e pedras preciosas; e nunca houve tais especiarias quais a rainha de Sabá deu ao rei Salomão.
10 Também os servos de Hurão, e os servos de Salomão, que de Ofir trouxeram ouro, trouxeram madeira de algumins, e pedras preciosas.
11 E o rei fez, da madeira de algumins, degraus para a casa do Senhor e para a casa do rei, como também harpas e alaúdes para os cantores, quais nunca dantes se viram na terra de Judá.
12 E o rei Salomão deu à rainha de Sabá tudo quanto ela desejou, tudo quanto lhe pediu, excedendo mesmo o que ela trouxera ao rei. Assim voltou e foi para a sua terra, ela e os seus servos.
13 Ora, o peso do ouro que se trazia cada ano a Salomão era de seiscentos e sessenta e seis talentos,
14 afora o que os mercadores e negociantes traziam; também todos os reis da Arábia, e os governadores do país traziam a Salomão ouro e prata.
15 E o rei Salomão fez duzentos paveses de ouro batido, empregando em cada pavês seiscentos siclos de ouro batido;
16 como também trezentos escudos de ouro batido, empregando em cada escudo trezentos siclos de ouro. E o rei os depositou na casa do bosque do Líbano.
17 Fez mais o rei um grande trono de marfim, e o revestiu de ouro puro.
18 O trono tinha seis degraus e um estrado de ouro, que eram ligados ao trono, e de ambos os lados tinha braços junto ao lugar do assento, e dois leões de pé junto aos braços.
19 E havia doze leões em pé de um e outro lado sobre os seis degraus; outro tal não se fizera em reino algum.
20 Também todos os vasos de beber do rei Salomão eram de ouro, e todos os utensílios da casa do bosque do Líbano, de ouro puro; a prata reputava-se sem valor nos dias de Salomão.
21 Pois o rei tinha navios que iam a Társis com os servos de Hurão; de três em três anos os navios voltavam de Társis, trazendo ouro, prata, marfim, bugios e pavões.
22 Assim excedeu o rei Salomão todos os reis da terra, em riqueza e em sabedoria.
23 E todos os reis da terra buscavam a presença de Salomão para ouvirem a sabedoria que Deus lhe tinha posto no coração.
24 Cada um trazia o seu presente, vasos de prata, vasos de ouro, vestidos, armaduras, especiarias, cavalos e mulos, uma quota de ano em ano.
25 Teve também Salomão quatro mil manjedouras para os cavalos de seus carros, doze mil cavaleiros; e os colocou nas cidades dos carros, e junto ao rei em Jerusalém.
26 Ele dominava sobre todos os reis, desde o Rio Eufrates até a terra dos filisteus, e até o termo do Egito.
27 Também o rei tornou a prata tão comum em Jerusalém como as pedras, e os cedros tantos em abundância como os sicômoros que há na baixada.
28 E cavalos eram trazidos a Salomão do Egito e de todas as terras.
29 Ora, o restante dos atos de Salomão, desde os primeiros até os últimos, porventura não estão escritos na história de Natã, o profeta, e na profecia de Aías, o silonita, e nas visões de Ido, o vidente, acerca de Jeroboão, filho de Nebate?
30 Salomão reinou em Jerusalém quarenta anos sobre todo o Israel.
31 E dormiu com seus pais, e foi sepultado na cidade de Davi, seu pai. E Roboão, seu filho, reinou em seu lugar.