1 And the queen of Sheba, when she had heard of the fame of Solomon, came into Jerusalem for to assay him in dark figures9:1 Figurative speech is to speak one thing, and to understand another., or likenesses, with great riches, and camels, that bare sweet smelling spices, and full much of gold, and precious gems, either pearls. And when she was come to Solomon, she spake to him whatever things were in her heart.
2 And Solomon expounded to her on all things which she had put forth to him, and nothing was, that he made not open, or known, to her.
3 And after that she saw these things, that is, the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had builded,
4 also and the meats of his board, and the dwelling places of his servants, and the offices of his ministers, and the clothes of them, and the butlers, and their clothes, and the sacrifices which he offered in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her for wondering, for these things passed her understanding.
5 And she said to the king, The word is true, which I heard in my land, of thy virtue, and [of thy] wisdom;
6 I believed not to [the] tellers, till I myself had come, and mine eyes had seen, and I had proved that scarcely the half of thy wisdom was told to me; thou hast overcome, or surpassed, the fame by thy virtues.
7 Blessed be thy men, and blessed be thy servants, these that stand before thee in all time, and hear thy wisdom.
8 Blessed be the Lord God, that would ordain thee on his throne king of the people of the Lord thy God; truly for God loveth Israel, and will save him without end, therefore he hath set thee king upon him, that thou do dooms and rightfulness [or rightwiseness].