1 A rainha de Sabá, ouvindo falar da fama de Salomão, veio a Jerusalém para prová-lo por meio de enigmas. Ela tinha um séquito considerável, camelos carregados de aromas, grande quantidade de ouro e de pedras preciosas. Quando da sua visita a Salomão, expôs-lhe tudo o que tinha no coração.
2 Salomão respondeu a todas as suas perguntas, e nada houve por demais obscuro que não pudesse solucionar.
3 Diante dessa sabedoria do rei, à vista da residência que tinha construído para si,
4 dos manjares de sua mesa, dos aposentos de seus servos, da habitação e vestes de seus domésticos, de seus copeiros e seus trajes, dos holocaustos que oferecia no templo do Senhor, a rainha de Sabá ficou enlevada de admiração.
5 É, pois, verdade, disse ela ao rei, o que tinha ouvido dizer, em minha terra, a respeito de tuas obras e de tua sabedoria.
6 Não queria dar fé a isso antes de vir e ver com meus próprios olhos. Pois bem, o que me tinham descrito não era sequer a metade de tua imensa sabedoria; ultrapassas tudo o que soube de ti pela tua fama!
7 Felizes os teus servos! Felizes esses servos que sempre estão diante de ti e ouvem tua sabedoria!
8 Bendito seja o Senhor, teu Deus, que te tomou como objeto de afeição, e te colocou no seu trono, como rei em nome do Senhor, teu Deus! É por causa de seu amor a Israel, e porque quer fazê-lo subsistir para sempre que te fez rei, para que faças reinar o direito e a justiça!
9 Em seguida, presenteou ao rei cento e vinte talentos de ouro, grande quantidade de aromas e pedras preciosas. Jamais se viram tantos aromas quantos os que a rainha de Sabá dera ao rei Salomão.
10 Os servos de Hirão e os servos de Salomão, que traziam o ouro de Ofir, trouxeram também madeira de sândalo e pedras preciosas.
11 Com essa madeira de sândalo o rei fez degraus para o templo do Senhor e para o palácio real, harpas e liras para os cantores. Nunca ainda se tinha visto semelhante madeira na terra de Judá.
12 O rei Salomão presenteou a rainha de Sabá com tudo o que ela sonhava ganhar, com muito mais do que ela havia trazido. Depois ela retomou com seus servos o caminho de sua terra.
13 O peso de ouro que Salomão recebia cada ano era de seiscentos e sessenta e seis talentos,
14 além do que lhe traziam os mercadores e traficantes. Todos os reis da Arábia, como os governadores locais, traziam a Salomão {um tributo} de ouro e prata.
15 O rei Salomão mandou fabricar duzentos escudos de ouro batido, para cada um dos quais utilizou seiscentos siclos de ouro batido;
16 e trezentos pequenos escudos de ouro batido, para cada um dos quais empregou trezentos siclos de ouro. O rei colocou-os no palácio do Bosque do Líbano.
17 Mandou também construir um grande trono de marfim, revestido de ouro puro.
18 Esse trono tinha seis degraus, com um escabelo de ouro fixado no trono. Nos dois lados do assento havia encostos flanqueados por leões.
19 Doze leões estavam colocados à direita e à esquerda, nos seis degraus. Nada de semelhante havia ainda sido feito em nenhum reino.
20 Todas as taças do rei Salomão eram feitas de ouro, e todo o vasilhame do palácio do Bosque do Líbano era de ouro puro. Nada era de prata, metal do qual no tempo de Salomão não se fazia caso algum.
21 Pois o rei tinha navios que iam a Társis com os servos de Hirão, e uma vez a cada três anos a frota voltava de Társis, carregada de ouro, prata, marfim, macacos e pavões.
22 Dessa maneira, por sua riqueza e sabedoria, o rei Salomão avantajava-se a todos os reis da terra,
23 e todos procuravam sua presença a fim de poderem ouvir a sabedoria que Deus lhe tinha infundido no coração.
24 Cada um lhe trazia anualmente seu presente: objetos de prata, objetos de ouro, vestimentas, armas, aromas, cavalos e mulos.
25 Salomão possuía cavalariças para quatro mil cavalos de carros e doze mil {cavalgaduras} para cavaleiros, que ele colocou nas cidades onde estavam abrigados seus carros assim como em Jerusalém, perto de si.
26 Ele dominava sobre todos os reis, desde o Eufrates até a terra dos filisteus e a fronteira do Egito.
27 Graças a ele, a prata tornou-se, em Jerusalém, tão comum como as pedras, e os cedros tão numerosos como os sicômoros da planície.
28 Era do Egito e de todas as terras que se importavam cavalos para Salomão.
29 O resto dos feitos de Salomão, dos primeiros aos últimos, está relatado no livro do profeta Natã, na profecia de Aías de Silo e nas visões do vidente Ado a respeito de Jeroboão, filho de Nabat.
30 O reinado de Salomão sobre todo o Israel durou quarenta anos, em Jerusalém.
31 Depois disso, Salomão adormeceu com seus pais e foi sepultado na cidade de Davi, seu pai. Seu filho Roboão sucedeu-lhe no trono.
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.