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9:10 (Huram’s <02438> servants <05650>, aided by Solomon’s <08010> servants <05650>, brought <0935> gold <02091> from Ophir <0211>, as well as fine <0418> timber <06086> and precious <03368> gems <068>. 9:11 With the <0853> timber <0418> <06086> the king <04428> made <06213> steps <04546> for the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> and royal <04428> palace <01004> as well as stringed instruments <05035> <03658> for the musicians <07891>. No one <03808> had seen <07200> anything like them <01992> in the land <0776> of Judah <03063> prior <06440> to that.) 9:12 King <04428> Solomon <08010> gave <05414> the queen <04436> of Sheba <07614> everything <03605> she requested <07592>, more than <0905> what she had brought <0935> him. Then she left <02015> and returned <01980> to her homeland <0776> with her attendants <05650>. 9:13 Solomon <08010> received <0935> 666 <08337> <08346> <03967> <08337> talents <03603> of gold <02091> per <0259> year <08141>, 9:14 besides <0905> what he collected <0935> from the merchants <08446> <0376> and traders <05503>. All <03605> the Arabian <06152> kings <04428> and the governors <06346> of the land <0776> also brought <0935> gold <02091> and silver <03701> to Solomon <08010>. 9:15 King <04428> Solomon <08010> made <06213> two hundred <03967> large shields <06793> of hammered <07820> gold <02091>; 600 <03967> <08337> measures of hammered <07820> gold <02091> were used <05927> for <05921> each <0259> shield <06793>. 9:16 He also made three <07969> hundred <03967> small shields <04043> of hammered <07820> gold <02091>; 300 <03967> <07969> measures of gold <02091> were used <05927> for <05921> each <0259> of those shields <04043>. The king <04428> placed <05414> them in the Palace <01004> of the Lebanon <03844> Forest <03293>. 9:17 The king <04428> made <06213> a large <01419> throne <03678> decorated with ivory <08127> and overlaid <06823> it with pure <02889> gold <02091>. 9:18 There were six <08337> steps <04609> leading up to the throne <03678>, and a gold <02091> footstool <03534> was attached <0270> to the throne <03678>. The throne had two <08147> armrests <03427> <04725> with a statue of a lion <0738> standing <05975> on <0681> each side <03027>. 9:19 There <08033> were twelve <06240> <08147> statues of lions <0738> on <05921> the six <08337> steps <04609>, one lion at each end <02088> of each step <02088>. There was nothing <03808> like <03651> it in any <03605> other kingdom <04467>. 9:20 All <03605> of King <04428> Solomon’s <08010> cups <04945> <03627> were made of gold <02091>, and all <03605> the household items <03627> in the Palace <01004> of the Lebanon <03844> Forest <03293> were made of pure <05462> gold <02091>. There were no <0369> silver <03701> items, for silver was not <03972> considered <02803> very valuable <03972> in Solomon’s <08010> time <03117>. 9:21 The king <04428> had a fleet of large merchant ships <08659> ships <0591> manned by <05973> Huram’s <02361> men <05650> that <03588> sailed <01980> the sea. Once <0259> every three <07969> years <08141> the fleet <0591> came <0935> into port <08659> with cargoes <05375> of gold <02091>, silver <03701>, ivory <08143>, apes <06971>, and peacocks <08500>. 9:22 King <04428> Solomon <08010> was wealthier <06239> and wiser <02451> than any <03605> of the kings <04428> of the earth <0776>. 9:23 All <03605> the kings <04428> of the earth <0776> wanted to visit <01245> Solomon <08010> to see <08085> him display his God-given <0430> <05414> wisdom <02451>. 9:24 Year <08141> after year <08141> visitors <0376> brought <0935> their <01992> gifts <04503>, which included items <03627> of silver <03701>, items <03627> of gold <02091>, clothes <08008>, perfume <05402>, spices <01314>, horses <05483>, and mules <06505>. 9:25 Solomon <08010> had 4,000 <0505> <0702> stalls <0723> for his chariot <04818> horses <05483> and 12,000 <0505> <06240> <08147> horses <06571>. He kept <03240> them in assigned cities <05892> and in <05973> Jerusalem <03389>. 9:26 He ruled <04910> all <03605> the kingdoms <04428> from <04480> the Euphrates River <05104> to <05704> the land <0776> of the Philistines <06430> as far <05704> as the border <01366> of Egypt <04714>. 9:27 The king <04428> made <05414> silver <03701> as plentiful in Jerusalem <03389> as stones <068>; cedar <0730> was <05414> as plentiful <07230> as sycamore fig trees <08256> are in the lowlands <08219>. 9:28 Solomon <08010> acquired <03318> horses <05483> from Egypt <04714> and from all <03605> the lands <0776>. 9:29 The rest <07605> of the events <01697> of Solomon’s <08010> reign, from start <07223> to finish <0314>, are recorded <03789> in <05921> the Annals <01697> of Nathan <05416> the Prophet <05030>, the Prophecy <05016> of Ahijah <0281> the Shilonite <07888>, and the Vision <02378> of Iddo <03260> the Seer <02374> pertaining <05921> to Jeroboam <03379> son <01121> of Nebat <05028>. 9:30 Solomon <08010> ruled <04427> over <05921> all <03605> Israel <03478> from Jerusalem <03389> for forty <0705> years <08141>. 9:31 Then Solomon <08010> passed away <01> <05973> <07901> and was buried <06912> in the city <05892> of his father <01> David <01732>. His son <01121> Rehoboam <07346> replaced <08478> him as king <04427>.

• 2Ch 9:13-28 -- Solomon's Wealth
• 2Ch 9:29-31 -- Solomon's Reign Ends

• Throne

  [isbe] THRONE - thron. (kicce', a "seat" in 2 Ki 4:10; a "royal seat" in Jon 3:6; thronos): Usually the symbol of kingly power and dignity. Solomon's throne was noted for its splendor and magnificence (1 Ki 10:18-20; compare 2 Ch 9...
  [smith] The Hebrew word so translated applies to any elevated seat occupied by a person in authority, whether a high priest, (1 Samuel 1:9) a judge, (Psalms 122:5) or a military chief (Jeremiah 1:16) The use of a chair in a countr...
  [nave] THRONE Of Pharaoh, Gen. 41:40; Ex. 11:5. Of David, 1 Kin. 2:12, 24; Psa. 132:11, 12; Isa. 9:7; Jer. 13:13; 17:25; Luke 1:32. Of Solomon, 1 Kin. 2:19; 2 Chr. 9:17-19. Of ivory, 1 Kin. 10:18-20. Of Solomon, called The Thro...
  

• Stones, Precious

  [ebd] Frequently referred to (1 Kings 10:2; 2 Chr. 3:6; 9:10; Rev. 18:16; 21:19). There are about twenty different names of such stones in the Bible. They are figuratively introduced to denote value, beauty, durability (Cant. 5:14...
  

• Solomon

  [ebd] peaceful, (Heb. Shelomoh), David's second son by Bathsheba, i.e., the first after their legal marriage (2 Sam. 12). He was probably born about B.C. 1035 (1 Chr. 22:5; 29:1). He succeeded his father on the throne in early man...
  [isbe] SOLOMON - sol'-o-mun (shelomoh; New Testament Solomon): I. EARLY LIFE 1. Name and Meaning 2. Sources 3. Birth and Upbringing 4. His Accession 5. Closing Days of David II. REIGN OF SOLOMON 1. His Vision 2. His Policy 3. Its R...
  [smith] (peaceful). I. Early life and occasion to the throne . --Solomon was the child of David?s old age, the last born of all his sons. (1 Chronicles 3:5) The yearnings of the "man of war" led him to give to the new-horn infant ...
  [nave] SOLOMON Son of David by Bathsheba, 2 Sam. 12:24; 1 Kin. 1:13, 17, 21. Named Jedidiah, by Nathan the prophet, 2 Sam. 12:24, 25. Ancestor of Joseph, Matt. 1:6. Succeeds David to the throne of Israel, 1 Kin. 1:11-48; 2:12; 1...
  

• Sheba

  [nave] SHEBA 1. Son of Raamah, Gen. 10:7; 1 Chr. 1:9. 2. Son of Joktan, Gen. 10:28; 1 Chr. 1:22. 3. Son of Jokshan, Gen. 25:3; 1 Chr. 1:32. 4. A Benjamite who led an insurrection against David, 2 Sam. 20. 5. A Gadite, 1 Chr. 5:...
  

• River of Egypt

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. nahar mitsraim, denotes in Gen. 15:18 the Nile, or its eastern branch (2 Chr. 9:26). (2.) In Num. 34:5 (R.V., "brook of Egypt") the Hebrew word is nahal, denoting a stream flowing rapidly in winter, or in the rainy...
  

• QUEEN OF SHEBA

  [isbe] QUEEN OF SHEBA - she'-ba (1 Ki 10:1-13; 2 Ch 9:1-12, called in Mt 12:42; Lk 11:31, "the queen of the south" (basilissa notou)): 1. Old Testament Accounts: The two Old Testament accounts of the coming of the queen of Sheba (s...
  

• QUEEN

  [isbe] QUEEN - kwen: The Bible applies this term: (1) To the wife of a king ("queen consort") (malkah). In the Book of Esther it is the title given to Vashti (1:9) and Esther (2:22); compare Song 6:8 f. Another Hebrew word for quee...
  

• King

  [nave] KING Called King of kings, Ezra 7:12; Ezek. 26:7; Dan. 2:37. Divinely authorized, Deut. 17:15; 1 Sam. 9:16, 17; 16:12; 1 Chr. 22:10; 2 Chr. 2:11, 12; Prov. 8:15; Dan. 2:21, 37; 4:17; 5:20; Hos. 8:4; 13:11. How chosen: By d...
  

• Ivory

  [isbe] IVORY - i'-vo-ri ((1) shen, "tooth" (translated "ivory," 1 Ki 10:18; 22:39; 2 Ch 9:17; Ps 45:8; Song 5:14; 7:4; Ezek 27:6,15; Am 3:15; 6:4); (2) shenhabbim; Septuagint odontes elephdntinoi, "elephants' teeth" (1 Ki 10:22; 2 ...
  [smith] The word translated "ivory" literally signifies the "tooth" of any animal, and hence more especially denotes the substance of the projecting tusks of elephants. The skilled work-men of Hiram, king of Tyre, fashioned the great...
  [nave] IVORY. Song 5:14; 7:4; Ezek. 27:15. Exported from Tarshish, 1 Kin. 10:22; 2 Chr. 9:21; Chittim, Ezek. 27:6. Ahab's palace made of, 1 Kin. 22:39. Other houses made of, Psa. 45:8; Amos 3:15. Other articles made of: String...
  

• Horse

  [nave] HORSE Description of: Great strength, Job 39:19-25; swifter than eagles, Jer. 4:13; snorting and neighing of, Isa. 5:28; Jer. 8:16; a vain thing for safety, Psa. 33:17; Prov. 21:31. Used by the Egyptians in war, Ex. 14:9; 1...
  

• Hiram

  [ebd] high-born. (1.) Generally "Huram," one of the sons of Bela (1 Chr. 8:5). (2.) Also "Huram" and "Horam," king of Tyre. He entered into an alliance with David, and assisted him in building his palace by sending him able workme...
  

• HURAM

  [smith] (noble born). A Benjamite; son of Bela, the first-born of the patriarch. (1 Chronicles 8:5) The form in which the name of the king of Tyre in alliance with David and Solomon --and elsewhere given as HIRAM, OR HURAM-- appe...
  

• FOREST

  [ebd] Heb. ya'ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer. 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of Ephraim (2 Sam. 18:6, 8; J...
  [isbe] FOREST - for'-est: (1) choresh (compare proper name Harosheth), 2 Ch 27:4. In 1 Sam 23:15 ff translated "wood"; in Isa 17:9, "wood"; in Ezek 31:3, "forest-like shade." Applied to any thick growth of vegetation but not necess...
  

• Causeway

  [ebd] a raised way, an ascent by steps, or a raised slope between Zion and the temple (1 Chr. 26:16, 18). In 2 Chr. 9:11 the same word is translated "terrace."
  

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

  [ebd] The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., "Acts of the Days." This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version "Chronicon," and hence "Chronicles." In the Sep...
  [isbe] CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF - kron'-i-k'-ls (dibhere ha-yamim, "The Words of the Days"; Septuagint paraleipomenon: 1. The Name 2. The Position of Chronicles in the Old Testament 3. Two Books, or One? 4. The Contents 5. Sources Bibl...
  

• Baalbec

  [ebd] called by the Greeks Heliopolis i.e., "the city of the sun", because of its famous Temple of the Sun, has by some been supposed to be Solomon's "house of the forest of Lebanon" (1 Kings 7:2; 10:17; 2 Chr. 9:16); by others it...
  

• Almug

  [ebd] (1 Kings 10:11, 12) = algum (2 Chr. 2:8; 9:10, 11), in the Hebrew occurring only in the plural almuggim (indicating that the wood was brought in planks), the name of a wood brought from Ophir to be used in the building of th...
  

• Algum

  [ebd] (2 Chr. 2:8; 9:10,11), the same as almug (1 Kings 10:11).
  [nave] ALGUM, called also Almug, trees of Ophir and Lebanon, 1 Kin. 10:11, 12; 2 Chr. 2:8; 9:10, 11.
  

• ARMS, ARMOR

  [smith] The subject naturally divides itself into-- I. Offensive weapons: Arms. II. Defensive weapons: Armor. I. Offensive weapons. -- Apparently the earliest known and most widely used was the Chereb or SWORD. Very little can be ga...
  

• ALGUM OR ALMUG TREES

  [smith] the former occurring in (2 Chronicles 2:8; 9:10,11) the latter in (1 Kings 10:11,12) These words are identical. From (1 Kings 10:11,12; 2 Chronicles 9:10,11) we learn that the almug was brought in great plenty fro...
  

• Solomon's Splendour, Wealth, and Wisdom

  

• The Queen of Sheba

  

• The Death of Solomon

  

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