8. How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom.
9. Blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel; because the Lord loved Israel forever, therefore He made you king, to do justice and righteousness."
10. She gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. Never again did such abundance of spices come in as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.
11. Also the ships of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a very great number of almug trees and precious stones.
12. The king made of the almug trees supports for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, also lyres and harps for the singers; such almug trees have not come in again nor have they been seen to this day.
13. King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire which she requested, besides what he gave her according to his royal bounty. Then she turned and went to her own land together with her servants.
14. Now the weight of gold which came in to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,
15. besides that from the traders and the wares of the merchants and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the country.
16. King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, using 600 shekels of gold on each large shield.
17. He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
18. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.