How happy are your men.[a](A) How happy are these servants of yours, who always stand in your presence hearing your wisdom. Blessed be the Lord your God! He delighted in you and put you on his throne as king for the Lord your God.(B) Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, he has set you over them as king to carry out justice and righteousness.”(C)

Then she gave the king four and a half tons[b] of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There never were such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:7 LXX, Old Lat read wives; 1Kg 10:8
  2. 9:9 Lit 120 talents

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