The Koine Bible

And the queen of Saba heard the name of Solomon, and she came to test Solomon with riddles in Jerusalem, with very great strength, and camels carrying spices and gold in abundance and precious stone, and she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was in her soul.

And Solomon told her all her words, and there did not pass away from Solomon a word that he did not report to her.

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

and the food of his tables and the seating of his servants and the standing of his ministers and their clothing and his cupbearers and their attire and the whole burnt offerings that he offered up in the house of the Lord, and she was beside herself

And she said to the king, The word that I heard in my land about your words and about your wisdom was true.

And I did not believe the words until I came and my eyes saw, and behold, not half of the abundance of your wisdom was reported to me; you have added to the report which I heard.

Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom.

May the Lord your God be blessed, who was willing to give you on his throne as king for the Lord your God, in his love for the Lord your God for establishing him forever; and he gave you over them as king to do judgment and righteousness.

And she gave to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold and very much spices and precious stone, and there was not according to those spices which the queen of Sheba had given to King Solomon.

And the servants of Solomon and the servants of Hiram were bringing gold to Solomon from Ophir and pine wood and precious stone

And the king made the pine wood into steps for the house of the Lord and for the house of the king, and harps and lyres for the singers, and such things were not seen before in the land of Judah.

And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desires which she asked, besides all that she brought to King Solomon; and she turned back to her land.

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

Besides the men who were subject and the merchants who brought, and all the kings of Arabia and the satraps of the land, they brought gold and silver to King Solomon

And King Solomon made two hundred beaten gold shields; six hundred pure golds went upon one shield, six hundred golds went upon one shield.

And three hundred shields of beaten gold, of three hundred gold pieces, were carried up for each shield, and the king gave them in the house of the forest of Lebanon

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

And six steps to the throne, bound with gold, and armrests on this side and on that side of the throne of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests

and twelve lions standing there on the six steps on this side and on that side; there was not such in any kingdom

And all the vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were overlaid with gold; silver was not accounted as anything in the days of Solomon.

For the king’s ship went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram; once in three years the ships used to come from Tarshish to the king, laden with gold and silver and ivory and apes.

And Solomon was magnified above all the kings, both in riches and in wisdom.

And all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had given in his heart.

And they themselves each brought his gifts: silver vessels and golden vessels and garments, stately, and sweet things, horses and mules, year by year, year by year

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

And he was ruler over all the kings from the river and as far as the land of the Philistines and as far as the border of Egypt.

And the king gave the gold and the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars as the sycamores that are in the lowland for abundance

And the export of the horses was for Solomon from Egypt and from all the land

And the rest of the words of Solomon, the first and the last, behold, they are written in the words of Nathan the prophet and in the words of Ahijah the Shilonite and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat

And Solomon the king reigned over all Israel forty years

And Solomon slept, and they buried him in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.