RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

talents of gold.
15 And this is the reason of the compulsory labor which
melech Shlomo raised; to build the Bayit of vuvh, and his
own bayit, and Millo, and the wall of Yahrushalayim, and
Hatzor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 For Pharaoh melech of Mitzrayim had gone up, and
taken Gezer, and burned it with fire, and slain the
Kanaanites that dwelt in the city, and gave it for a present
to his daughter, Shlomo's wife.
17 And Shlomo built Gezer, and lower Beth-Horon.
18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the
land,
19 And all the cities of storage that Shlomo had, and
cities for his mirkavot, and cities for his horsemen, and
that which Shlomo desired to build in Yahrushalayim,
and in Levanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites,
Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Yevusites, which were
not of the children of Yisrael,
21 Their children that were left after them in the land,
whom the children of Yisrael were not able utterly to
destroy; upon those did Shlomo place in compulsory
labor until this day.
22 But of the children of Yisrael did Shlomo make no
avadim: but they were men of war, and his avadim, and
his rulers, and his captains, and rulers of his mirkavot,
and his horsemen.
23 These were the chief of the officers that were over
Shlomo's work, five hundred fifty, who had rule over the
people that labored in the work.
24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of
Dawid to her bayit which Shlomo had built for her: then
did he build Millo.
25 And three times in a year did Shlomo offer burnt
offerings and shalom offerings upon the altar which he
built to vuvh, and he burned incense upon the altar that
was before vuvh. So he finished the Bayit.
26 And melech Shlomo made a navy of ships in Etzyon-
Gever, which is beside Eilat, on the shore of the Sea of
Reeds, in the land of Edom.
27 And Chiram sent in the navy his avadim, shipmen that
had da’at of the sea, with the avadim of Shlomo. 887
28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold,
four hundred twenty talents, and brought it to melech
Shlomo.
And when the Malqa of Sheva heard of the fame of
Shlomo concerning the Name of vuvh, 888 10
she came to
test him with hard questions.
2 And she came to Yahrushalayim with a very great
company, with camels that bore spices, and very much
gold, and precious stones: and when she had come to
Shlomo, she communed with him of all that was in her
lev.
3 And Shlomo answered all her questions: there was not
anything hidden from the melech, which he told her not.
4 And when the Malqa of Sheva had seen all Shlomo's
chochmah, and the Bayit that he had built,
5 And the meat at his shulchan, and the sitting of his
avadim, and the service of his waiters, and their attire,
and his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he
offered in the Bayit of vuvh; there was no more ruach in
her.
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6 And she said to the melech, It was an emet report that I
heard in my own land of your acts and of your chochmah.
7 But I believed not the words, until I came, and my eyes
have seen it: and, see, not even the half of your greatness
was told to me: your chochmah and prosperity exceeds
the fame which I heard.
8 Favored are your men, favored are these, your avadim,
who stand continually before you, and that hear your
chochmah.
9 Barchu-et-vuvh your Elohim, who delighted in you, to
set you on the kesay of Yisrael: because vuvh loved
Yisrael le-olam-va-ed, therefore He made you melech, to
do mishpat and justice.
10 And she gave the melech one hundred twenty talents
of gold, and of spices very many, and precious stones:
there came no more such an abundance of spices as those
which the Malqa of Sheva gave to melech Shlomo.
11 And the navy also of Chiram, that brought gold from
Ophir, brought in from Ophir a great amount of
sandalwood, and precious stones.
12 And the melech made of the sandalwood pillars for the
Bayit of vuvh, and for the melech's bayit, harps also and
lyres for singers: there came no such sandalwood before,
nor were any seen to this day.
13 And melech Shlomo gave to the Malqa of Sheva all
her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which
Shlomo gave her of his royal bounty. So she returned and
went to her own country, she and her avadim. 889
14 Now the weight of gold that came to Shlomo in one
year was six hundred sixty six talents of gold.
15 Beside that he had much from the merchants, and from
the profit from traders, and from all the melechim of
Arabia, and from the governors of the country.
16 And melech Shlomo made two hundred large shields
of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went into one
shield.
17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold;
three pounds of gold went into one shield: and the melech
put them in the bayit of the forest of Levanon.
18 Moreover the melech made a great kesay of ivory, and
overlaid it with the best gold.
19 The kesay had six steps, and the top of the kesay was
round in the back: and there were armrests on either side
on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the
armrests.
20 And twelve lions stood one on each side of the six
steps: there was not any like it made in any malchut. 890
21 And all melech Shlomo's drinking vessels were of
gold, and all the vessels of the Bayit of the forest of
Levanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: for silver
was counted as nothing in the days of Shlomo.
22 For the melech had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the
navy of Chiram: once every three years came the navy of
Tarshish, 891 bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes,
and peacocks.
23 So melech Shlomo exceeded all the melechim of the
earth for riches and for chochmah. 892
24 And all the earth came to Shlomo, to hear his
chochmah, which Elohim had put in his lev. 893
25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of
silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armor, and
spices, horses, and mules year by year.
26 And Shlomo gathered together mirkavot and