And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to
(a) prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great
company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and
precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with
him of all that was in her... [ Continue Reading ]
And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was (b) nothing hid
from Solomon which he told her not.
(b) There was no question so hard that he did not resolve.... [ Continue Reading ]
Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on
his (c) throne, [to be] king for the LORD thy God: because thy God
loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king
over them, to do judgment and justice.
(c) Meaning, that the Israelites were God's peculiar pe... [ Continue Reading ]
And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which
brought gold from Ophir, brought (d) algum trees and precious stones.
(d) Read (2 Chronicles 2:8; 1 Kings 10:11).... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king made [of] the algum trees (e) terraces to the house of
the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for
singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
(e) Or pillars: meaning the garnishing and trimming of the stairs or
pillars.... [ Continue Reading ]
And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever
she asked, (f) beside [that] which she had brought unto the king. So
she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.
(f) That is, which the king gave her for recompense of the treasure
which she brought.... [ Continue Reading ]
And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: (g) six
hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.
(g) Which amounts to 2400 crowns of the sun.
(h) Or pounds, called mina, of which every one seemed to make a
hundred shekels.... [ Continue Reading ]
And [there were] six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold,
[which were] (i) fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the
sitting place, and two lions standing by the (k) stays:
(i) That is, the steps and the footstool were fastened to the throne.
(k) Upon the pommels or knops.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram:
every three years once came the ships of (l) Tarshish bringing gold,
and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
(l) Which is thought by the best writers to be Cilicia, (1 Kings
10:22).... [ Continue Reading ]
And Solomon had (m) four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and
with the king at Jerusalem.
(m) That is, ten horses in every stable, which in all amounts to
40,000 as in (1 Kings 4:26).... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king made silver in Jerusalem (n) as stones, and cedar trees
made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the low plains in
abundance.
(n) The abundance of those temporal treasures in Solomon's kingdom is
a figure of the spiritual treasures which the elect will enjoy in the
heavens under the... [ Continue Reading ]
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, [are] they not
written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of
Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer (o) against
Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
(o) That is, who prophesied against him.... [ Continue Reading ]