1 Kings 10 — Rahlfs Septuagint

καὶ βασίλισσα Σαβα ἤκουσεν τὸ ὄνομα Σαλωμων καὶ τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου καὶ ἦλθεν πειράσαι αὐτὸν ἐν αἰνίγμασιν

And the queen of Sheba heard the name of Solomon and the name of the Lord, and she came to test him with riddles.

And she came to Jerusalem with very great power, and camels carrying spices and very much gold and precious stone; and she went in to Solomon and spoke to him all that was in her heart.

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καὶ ἀπήγγειλεν αὐτῇ Σαλωμων πάντας τοὺς λόγους αὐτῆς οὐκ ἦν λόγος παρεωραμένος παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως ὃν οὐκ ἀπήγγειλεν αὐτῇ

And Solomon declared to her all her words; there was not a word overlooked by the king that he did not declare to her

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καὶ εἶδεν βασίλισσα Σαβα πᾶσαν φρόνησιν Σαλωμων καὶ τὸν οἶκον ὃν ᾠκοδόμησεν

And the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the house which he had built

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and the food of Solomon and the seating of his servants and the standing of his attendants and his clothing and his cupbearers and his whole burnt offering which he offered up in the house of the Lord and she came to be beside herself

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And she said to King Solomon, The report that I heard in my land about your word and about your understanding was true.

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And I did not believe those speaking to me until I came and my eyes had seen it, and behold, the half is not as they reported to me; you have added good things to them beyond all the report that I heard in my land

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Blessed are your women, blessed are your children, these who stand before you continually, those who hear all your wisdom.

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Blessed be the Lord your God, who was pleased with you to put you on the throne of Israel, because he loved the Lord, to establish Israel forever, and he has set you as king over them, to do judgment in righteousness and in their judgments

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And she gave to Solomon one hundred and twenty talents of gold and very many spices and precious stone; there had not come like those spices yet in abundance which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon

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καὶ ἡ ναῦς Χιραμ ἡ αἴρουσα τὸ χρυσίον ἐκ Σουφιρ ἤνεγκεν ξύλα ἀπελέκητα πολλὰ σφόδρα καὶ λίθον τίμιον

And the ship of Hiram, which was bringing the gold from Ophir, brought very many unhewn logs and precious stone.

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And the king made the unhewn wood supports for the house of the Lord and for the house of the king, and harps and lyres for the singers; such unhewn wood had not come upon the earth, nor have they been seen anywhere until this day.

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And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, all that she asked, besides all that he had given her by the hand of King Solomon; and she turned and came to her land, she and all her servants.

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καὶ ἦν ὁ σταθμὸς τοῦ χρυσίου τοῦ ἐληλυθότος τῷ Σαλωμων ἐν ἐνιαυτῷ ἑνὶ ἑξακόσια καὶ ἑξήκοντα ἓξ τάλαντα χρυσίου

And the weight of the gold that had come to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold

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χωρὶς τῶν φόρων τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων καὶ τῶν ἐμπόρων καὶ πάντων τῶν βασιλέων τοῦ πέραν καὶ τῶν σατραπῶν τῆς γῆς

besides the taxes of the subject peoples and of the merchants and of all the kings of the beyond and of the satraps of the land

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καὶ ἐποίησεν Σαλωμων τριακόσια δόρατα χρυσᾶ ἐλατά τριακόσιοι χρυσοῖ ἐπῆσαν ἐπὶ τὸ δόρυ τὸ ἕν

And Solomon made three hundred beaten golden shields; three hundred shekels of gold went upon one shield.

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And three hundred beaten gold shields; three minas of gold went into each shield, and he put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

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καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς θρόνον ἐλεφάντινον μέγαν καὶ περιεχρύσωσεν αὐτὸν χρυσίῳ δοκίμῳ

And the king made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold

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Six steps to the throne, and heads of calves for the throne from behind it, and hands on this side and on that side upon the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the hands

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καὶ δώδεκα λέοντες ἑστῶτες ἐπὶ τῶν ἓξ ἀναβαθμῶν ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν οὐ γέγονεν οὕτως πάσῃ βασιλείᾳ

and twelve lions standing on the six steps on this side and on that side; there has not been thus in any kingdom

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And all the vessels of Solomon’s drinking were gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were gold-wash basins, being overlaid with gold; there was no silver, because it was not reckoned in the days of Solomon.

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For the king had a Tarshish ship at sea with the ships of Hiram; once in three years a ship from Tarshish used to come to the king, bringing gold and silver and carved stones and hewn stones

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καὶ ἐμεγαλύνθη Σαλωμων ὑπὲρ πάντας τοὺς βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς πλούτῳ καὶ φρονήσει

And Solomon was magnified beyond all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom

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And all the kings of the earth sought the face of Solomon, to hear the wisdom that the Lord had given in his heart.

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And they themselves were bringing, each one, his gifts: golden vessels and stately garments and spices and horses and mules, year by year, year by year.

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And Solomon had four thousand mares for chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he placed them in the cities of the chariots and with the king in Jerusalem.

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And the king gave the gold and the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he gave the cedars as the sycamores that are in the plain, in abundance.

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καὶ ἡ ἔξοδος τῶν ἵππων Σαλωμων ἐξ Αἰγύπτου καὶ ἐκ Θεκουε ἔμποροι τοῦ βασιλέως ἐλάμβανον ἐκ Θεκουε ἐν ἀλλάγματι

And the export of Solomon’s horses was out of Egypt and from Tekoa; the king’s merchants were receiving from Tekoa by exchange.

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And the export from Egypt went up, a chariot for a hundred silver, and a horse for fifty silver; and so for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria, by sea they were brought out.