2Ch 8-9 (King James)

¹ And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
² That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
³ And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.
⁴ And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.
⁵ Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
⁶ And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
⁷ As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
⁸ But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
⁹ But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.
¹⁰ And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.
¹¹ And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.
¹² Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,
¹³ Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
¹⁴ And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
¹⁵ And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
¹⁶ Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.
¹⁷ Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
¹⁸ And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

2 Chroniques 9

¹ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to 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 heart.
² And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.
³ And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
⁴ And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
⁵ And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
⁶ Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
⁷ Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
⁸ Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his 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.
⁹ And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
¹⁰ And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.
¹¹ And the king made of the algum trees 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.
¹² And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.
¹³ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;
¹⁴ Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
¹⁵ And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
¹⁶ And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
¹⁷ Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
¹⁸ And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:
¹⁹ And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.
²⁰ And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
²¹ For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
²² And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
²³ And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
²⁴ And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
²⁵ And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
²⁶ And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
²⁷ And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
²⁸ And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
²⁹ 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 against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
³⁰ And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
³¹ And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

2Ch 8-9 (Vulgate)

¹ Expletis autem viginti annis postquam ædificavit Salomon domum Domini et domum suam,
² civitates quas dederat Hiram Salomoni, ædificavit, et habitare ibi fecit filios Israël.
³ Abiit quoque in Emath Suba, et obtinuit eam.
⁴ Et ædificavit Palmyram in deserto, et alias civitates munitissimas ædificavit in Emath.
⁵ Exstruxitque Bethoron superiorem, et Bethoron inferiorem, civitates muratas habentes portas et vectes et seras :
⁶ Balaath etiam et omnes urbes firmissimas quæ fuerunt Salomonis, cunctasque urbes quadrigarum, et urbes equitum. Omnia quæcumque voluit Salomon atque disposuit, ædificavit in Jerusalem, et in Libano, et in universa terra potestatis suæ.
⁷ Omnem populum qui derelictus fuerat de Hethæis, et Amorrhæis, et Pherezæis, et Hevæis, et Jebusæis, qui non erant de stirpe Israël,
⁸ de filiis eorum, et de posteris, quos non interfecerant filii Israël, subjugavit Salomon in tributarios, usque in diem hanc.
⁹ Porro de filiis Israël non posuit ut servirent operibus regis : ipsi enim erant viri bellatores, et duces primi, et principes quadrigarum et equitum ejus.
¹⁰ Omnes autem principes exercitus regis Salomonis fuerunt ducenti quinquaginta, qui erudiebant populum.
¹¹ Filiam vero Pharaonis transtulit de civitate David in domum quam ædificaverat ei. Dixit enim rex : Non habitabit uxor mea in domo David regis Israël, eo quod sanctificata sit : quia ingressa est in eam arca Domini.
¹² Tunc obtulit Salomon holocausta Domino super altare Domini, quod exstruxerat ante porticum,
¹³ ut per singulos dies offerretur in eo juxta præceptum Moysi in sabbatis et in calendis, et in festis diebus, ter per annum, id est, in solemnitate azymorum, et in solemnitate hebdomadarum, et in solemnitate tabernaculorum.
¹⁴ Et constituit juxta dispositionem David patris sui officia sacerdotum in ministeriis suis, et Levitas in ordine suo, ut laudarent et ministrarent coram sacerdotibus juxta ritum uniuscujusque diei, et janitores in divisionibus suis per portam et portam : sic enim præceperat David homo Dei.
¹⁵ Nec prætergressi sunt de mandatis regis tam sacerdotes quam Levitæ, ex omnibus quæ præceperat, et in custodiis thesaurorum.
¹⁶ Omnes impensas præparatas habuit Salomon ex eo die quo fundavit domum Domini usque in diem quo perfecit eam.
¹⁷ Tunc abiit Salomon in Asiongaber, et in Ailath ad oram maris Rubri, quæ est in terra Edom.
¹⁸ Misit autem ei Hiram per manus servorum suorum naves, et nautas gnaros maris, et abierunt cum servis Salomonis in Ophir, tuleruntque inde quadringenta quinquaginta talenta auri, et attulerunt ad regem Salomonem.

2 Chroniques 9

¹ Regina quoque Saba, cum audisset famam Salomonis, venit ut tentaret eum in ænigmatibus in Jerusalem, cum magnis opibus et camelis, qui portabant aromata, et auri plurimum, gemmasque pretiosas. Cumque venisset ad Salomonem, locuta est ei quæcumque erant in corde suo.
² Et exposuit ei Salomon omnia quæ proposuerat : nec quidquam fuit, quod non perspicuum ei fecerit.
³ Quæ postquam vidit, sapientiam scilicet Salomonis, et domum quam ædificaverat,
⁴ necnon et cibaria mensæ ejus, et habitacula servorum, et officia ministrorum ejus, et vestimenta eorum, pincernas quoque et vestes eorum, et victimas quas immolabat in domo Domini : non erat præ stupore ultra in ea spiritus.
⁵ Dixitque ad regem : Verus est sermo quem audieram in terra mea de virtutibus et sapientia tua.
⁶ Non credebam narrantibus donec ipsa venissem, et vidissent oculi mei, et probassem vix medietatem sapientiæ tuæ mihi fuisse narratam : vicisti famam virtutibus tuis.
⁷ Beati viri tui, et beati servi tui, qui assistunt coram te omni tempore, et audiunt sapientiam tuam.
⁸ Sit Dominus Deus tuus benedictus, qui voluit te ordinare super thronum suum, regem Domini Dei tui. Quia diligit Deus Israël, et vult servare eum in æternum, idcirco posuit te super eum regem ut facias judicia atque justitiam.
⁹ Dedit autem regi centum viginti talenta auri, et aromata multa nimis, et gemmas pretiosissimas : non fuerunt aromata talia, ut hæc quæ dedit regina Saba regi Salomoni.
¹⁰ Sed et servi Hiram cum servis Salomonis attulerunt aurum de Ophir, et ligna thyina, et gemmas pretiosissimas :
¹¹ de quibus fecit rex, de lignis scilicet thyinis, gradus in domo Domini, et in domo regia, citharas quoque, et psalteria cantoribus : numquam visa sunt in terra Juda ligna talia.
¹² Rex autem Salomon dedit reginæ Saba cuncta quæ voluit, et quæ postulavit, et multo plura quam attulerat ad eum : quæ reversa abiit in terram suam cum servis suis.
¹³ Erat autem pondus auri quod afferebatur Salomoni per singulos annos, sexcenta sexaginta sex talenta auri,
¹⁴ excepta ea summa quam legati diversarum gentium et negotiatores afferre consueverant, omnesque reges Arabiæ, et satrapæ terrarum, qui comportabant aurum et argentum Salomoni.
¹⁵ Fecit igitur rex Salomon ducentas hastas aureas de summa sexcentorum aureorum, qui in singulis hastis expendebantur :
¹⁶ trecenta quoque scuta aurea trecentorum aureorum, quibus tegebantur singula scuta : posuitque ea rex in armamentario, quod erat consitum nemore.
¹⁷ Fecit quoque rex solium eburneum grande, et vestivit illud auro mundissimo.
¹⁸ Sex quoque gradus, quibus ascendebatur ad solium, et scabellum aureum, et brachiola duo altrinsecus, et duos leones stantes juxta brachiola,
¹⁹ sed et alios duodecim leunculos stantes super sex gradus ex utraque parte : non fuit tale solium in universis regnis.
²⁰ Omnia quoque vasa convivii regis erant aurea, et vasa domus saltus Libani ex auro purissimo. Argentum enim in diebus illis pro nihilo reputabatur.
²¹ Siquidem naves regis ibant in Tharsis cum servis Hiram, semel in annis tribus : et deferebant inde aurum, et argentum, et ebur, et simias, et pavos.
²² Magnificatus est igitur Salomon super omnes reges terræ præ divitiis et gloria.
²³ Omnesque reges terrarum desiderabant videre faciem Salomonis, ut audirent sapientiam quam dederat Deus in corde ejus :
²⁴ et deferebant ei munera, vasa argentea et aurea, et vestes, et arma, et aromata, equos, et mulos, per singulos annos.
²⁵ Habuit quoque Salomon quadraginta millia equorum in stabulis, et curruum equitumque duodecim millia : constituitque eos in urbibus quadrigarum, et ubi erat rex in Jerusalem.
²⁶ Exercuit etiam potestatem super cunctos reges a flumine Euphrate usque ad terram Philisthinorum, et usque ad terminos Ægypti.
²⁷ Tantamque copiam præbuit argenti in Jerusalem quasi lapidum : et cedrorum tantam multitudinem velut sycomororum quæ gignuntur in campestribus.
²⁸ Adducebantur autem ei equi de Ægypto, cunctisque regionibus.
²⁹ Reliqua autem operum Salomonis priorum et novissimorum scripta sunt in verbis Nathan prophetæ, et in libris Ahiæ Silonitis, in visione quoque Addo videntis contra Jeroboam filium Nabat.
³⁰ Regnavit autem Salomon in Jerusalem super omnem Israël quadraginta annis.
³¹ Dormivitque cum patribus suis, et sepelierunt eum in civitate David : regnavitque Roboam filius ejus pro eo.