1 En toe die koningin van Skeba die gerug van Salomo hoor in verband met die Naam van die HERE, het sy gekom om hom met raaisels op die proef te stel.
2 En sy het na Jerusalem gekom met 'n baie groot trek, met kamele wat speserye en 'n menigte goud en edelgesteentes dra; en toe sy by Salomo inkom, het sy met hom gespreek oor alles wat in haar hart was.
3 En Salomo het haar al haar woorde verklaar; geen woord was vir die koning te diepsinnig om haar dit te verklaar nie.
4 Toe die koningin van Skeba dan al die wysheid van Salomo sien en die huis wat hy gebou het,
5 en die voedsel van sy tafel en hoe sy dienaars sit en sy bediendes staan, en hulle klere, en sy dranke en sy trap waarmee hy opklim in die huis van die HERE, was daar in haar geen gees meer nie.
6 Daarop sê sy aan die koning: Die woord was waarheid wat ek in my land gehoor het oor u en oor u wysheid;
7 en ek het die woorde nie geglo nie, totdat ek gekom en my oë gesien het; en kyk, die helfte is my nie meegedeel nie. U oortref in wysheid en in welvaart die gerug wat ek gehoor het.
8 Gelukkig is u manne, gelukkig hierdie dienaars van u wat gedurig voor u staan, wat u wysheid hoor.
9 Geloofd sy die HERE u God wat behae in u gehad het om u op die troon van Israel te laat sit! Omdat die HERE Israel vir ewig liefhet, het Hy u as koning aangestel om reg en geregtigheid te doen.
10 Verder het sy aan die koning honderd en twintig talente goud en 'n groot menigte speserye en edelgesteentes gegee; daar het nooit weer so 'n menigte speserye ingekom as wat die koningin van Skeba aan koning Salomo gegee het nie.
11 Maar ook die skepe van Hiram wat goud uit Ofir gaan haal het, het uit Ofir 'n groot menigte sandelhout en edelgesteentes gebring.
12 En van die sandelhout het die koning trapleunings gemaak vir die huis van die HERE en die huis van die koning, en siters en harpe vir die sangers; so het daar geen sandelhout ingekom en is daar nie gesien tot vandag toe nie.
13 En koning Salomo het aan die koningin van Skeba al haar begeerte gegee wat sy gevra het, bo wat hy haar na die vermoë van koning Salomo gegee het. Daarop het sy omgedraai en na haar land getrek, sy en haar dienaars.
14 En die gewig van Salomo se inkomste aan goud in een jaar was ses honderd ses en sestig talente goud,
15 behalwe wat ingekom het van die koopmans wat rondtrek, en van die wins van die handelaars en van al die konings van die gemengde bevolking en van die goewerneurs van die land.
16 En koning Salomo het twee honderd groot skilde van geslae goud gemaak; ses honderd sikkels goud het hy op elke groot skild gebruik;
17 en drie honderd klein skilde van geslae goud; drie mines goud het hy op elke klein skild gebruik, en die koning het dit in die huis van die L¡banon-bos gesit.
18 Verder het die koning 'n groot troon van ivoor gemaak en dit met suiwer goud oorgetrek.
19 Die troon het ses trappe gehad, en die kopstuk van die troon was van agter rond, en aan weerskante was trapleunings by die sitplek, terwyl twee leeus langs die leunings staan.
20 Daarby het twaalf leeus daar op die ses trappe aan weerskante gestaan; so iets is nooit vir enige koninkryk gemaak nie.
21 En die hele drinkservies van koning Salomo was van goud, en al die voorwerpe van die huis van die L¡banon-bos van fyn goud; silwer was daar nie by nie: dit is in die dae van Salomo as niks gereken nie.
22 Want die koning het Tarsis-skepe op die see gehad by die skepe van Hiram; een maal in drie jaar het die Tarsis-skepe ingekom, gelaai met goud en silwer, ivoor en ape en poue.
23 So het koning Salomo dan groter geword as al die konings van die aarde, in rykdom en wysheid.
24 En die hele wêreld het die aangesig van Salomo gesoek om sy wysheid te hoor wat God in sy hart gegee het,
25 terwyl elkeen van hulle sy geskenk saambring: silwervoorwerpe en goue voorwerpe en klere en wapens en speserye, perde en muile, jaar vir jaar.
26 Verder het Salomo strydwaens en perderuiters versamel, sodat hy veertien honderd waens en twaalf duisend perderuiters gehad het; en hy het dit in die stede vir die waens en by die koning in Jerusalem opgestel.
27 Verder het die koning die silwer in Jerusalem gemaak soos klippe en die seders gemaak soos wildevyebome wat in die Laeveld is, in menigte.
28 En die uitvoer van perde vir Salomo was uit Egipte en uit Kw,; handelaars van die koning het dit uit Kw, gaan haal teen koopprys.
29 En 'n wa het uit Egipte opgekom, en dit is verkoop vir ses honderd sikkels silwer, en 'n perd vir honderd en vyftig; en so is dit vir al die konings van die Hetiete en vir die konings van Aram deur hulle uitgevoer.
1 Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions.
2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels weighted down with spices, and stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.
3 And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which the king did not make clear to her.
4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,
5 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 the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.
6 And she said to the king, The account which was given to me in my country of your acts and your wisdom was true.
7 But I had no faith in what was said about you, till I came and saw for myself; and now I see that it was not half the story; your wisdom and your wealth are much greater than they said.
8 Happy are your wives, happy are these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.
9 May the Lord your God be praised, whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; because the Lord's love for Israel is eternal, he has made you king, to be their judge in righteousness.
10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never again was such a wealth of spices seen as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.
11 And the sea-force of Hiram, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with much sandal-wood and jewels.
12 And from the sandal-wood the king made pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody: never has such sandal-wood been seen to this day.
13 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what he gave her freely from the impulse of his heart. So she went back to her country, she and her servants.
14 Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;
15 In addition to what came to him from the business of the traders, and from all the kings of the Arabians, and from the rulers of the country.
16 And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.
17 And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.
18 Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.
19 There were six steps going up to it, and the top of it was round at the back, there were arms on the two sides of the seat, and two lions by the side of the arms;
20 And twelve lions were placed on the one side and on the other side on the six steps: there was nothing like it in any kingdom.
21 And 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; not one was of silver, for no one gave a thought to silver in the days of King Solomon.
22 For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and monkeys and peacocks.
23 And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.
24 And from all over the earth they came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
25 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 of transport, regularly year by year.
26 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.
27 And the king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem and cedars like the sycamore-trees of the lowlands in number.
28 And Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders got them at a price from Kue.
29 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.