1 Kings 10:9

Blessed be the Lord thy God We need not suppose from the use of this language that the queen had become a convert to Judaism, any more than that Hiram was so from the words put into his mouth above in chap. 1 Kings 5:7. It could not matter, in the mind of the heathen queen, whether she included one divinity more or less in the number of those she honoured. To her, Jehovah was for Israel what her own divinity was for her own people, the national god to whom the prosperity of the king and his subjects had been a special care.

to set thee on the throne of Israel In 2 Chronicles 9:8 the sentence runs -to set thee on His throne, to be king for the Lord thy God." This turn of the sentence harmonizes entirely with the tone of the Chronicler, who views everywhere the king as Jehovah's representative and vicegerent.

The LXX. expands the closing words of the verse, but not in such wise as to change the sense.