Happy are your wives![a] Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you (A)and set you on his throne as king for the Lord your God! (B)Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness.” Then she gave the king 120 talents[b] of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 9:7 Septuagint (compare 1 Kings 10:8); Hebrew men
  2. 2 Chronicles 9:9 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

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