1 Kungaboken 10
Swedish New Living Bible (Nya Levande Bibeln)
Drottningen av Saba på besök
10 När ryktet om Salomo och hans vishet nådde drottningen av Saba, bestämde hon sig för att besöka honom och sätta honom på prov.
2 Hon kom till Jerusalem med en lång karavan av kameler, lastade med kryddor, guld och juveler, och hon talade med Salomo om allt hon hade på hjärtat.
3 Salomo besvarade alla hennes frågor. Ingenting var för svårt för honom att förklara.
4 Hon insåg snart att allt som hon hade hört om hans stora visdom var sant. Hon beundrade och lät sig imponeras av det vackra palatset som han hade byggt,
5 den läckra maten som serverades av tjänare och uppassare i dyrbara dräkter och av de många offer som Salomo bar fram till Herren.
6 Allt jag har hört i mitt hemland om din visdom och om vad du har uträttat är sant! utbrast hon.
7 Jag skulle aldrig kunnat tro på det om jag inte själv fått se det! Inte ens hälften har man berättat! Din vishet och din rikedom är mycket större än jag kunnat föreställa mig.
8 Ditt folk måste vara lyckligt, och dina rådgivare verkar nöjda. Hur skulle de kunna vara annat, när de får stå här dag efter dag och lyssna till din visdom!
9 All ära till Herren, din Gud, som har utvalt dig och satt dig på Israels tron! Vad Herren måste älska Israel, som har låtit dig bli dess kung för att bevara rätt och rättfärdighet!
10 Sedan gav hon kungen 4.000 kilo guld som gåva och stora mängder av välluktande kryddor och ädla stenar. Leveransen av kryddor är den största kända någonsin.
11 (När kung Hirams fartyg anlände med guld från Ofir till Salomo, förde de också med sig stora mängder algumträ och ädla stenar.
12 Salomo använde algumträ till inredningen i templet och kungapalatset och till harpor och psaltare för sina körer. Så mycket algumträ har varken förr eller senare funnits i landet.)
13 Som tack för gåvorna från drottningen av Saba gav kung Salomo henne allt hon önskade sig, förutom vad han redan tidigare hade tänkt ge henne. Sedan återvände hon och hennes tjänare till sitt land.
Salomos oerhörda rikedom
14 Varje år fick Salomo in guld till en vikt av omkring 22.000 kilo,
15 förutom skatter och intäkter från affärer med de arabiska kungarna och landets eget folk.
16-17 Han lät göra 200 större sköldar belagda med uthamrat guld, där guldet till varje sköld vägde över 3 kilo, och dessutom 300 mindre sköldar som vardera tog i anspråk 2 kilo guld. Dessa lät han förvara i Libanonskogens sal.
18 Han lät också tillverka en stor tron i elfenben och belade den med guld.
19 Den hade sex trappsteg, och ett ryggstöd som var avrundat upptill.
20 På vart och ett av de båda armstöden stod ett lejon, och likaså stod två lejon ytterst på varje trappsteg, tillsammans tolv stycken. Något liknande hade aldrig skådats i hela världen.
21 Alla kung Salomos bägare var av guld, liksom hela hans matservis i Libanonskogens sal. Silver användes inte, eftersom det inte ansågs ha något större värde!
22 Kung Salomos handelsflotta samarbetade med kung Hirams, och vart tredje år kom fartygen hem med guld, silver, elfenben, apor och påfåglar.
23 Kung Salomo var rikare och visare än någon annan kung på jorden.
24 Mäktiga män från många länder kom för att lyssna till hans gudagivna visdom.
25 De gav honom årligen stora gåvor av silver och guld, vackra kläder, myrra, kryddor, hästar och mulåsnor.
26 Salomo samlade också många hästar och vagnar. Han hade 1.400 vagnar och 12.000 hästar dels i särskilda städer och dels i Jerusalem.
27 Silver var på den tiden lika vanligt som sten, och cederträ hade inte större värde än vilket vanligt träslag som helst.
28 Salomos hästar kom från Egypten och Mindre Asien, där hans män hade köpt upp dem till förmånliga priser.
29 En egyptisk vagn fick de för omkring sju kilo silver och en häst för omkring ett och ett halvt kilo silver. Många av dessa såldes vidare till hetiternas och arameernas kungar.
1 Kings 10
New Living Translation
Visit of the Queen of Sheba
10 When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame, which brought honor to the name of the Lord,[a] she came to test him with hard questions. 2 She arrived in Jerusalem with a large group of attendants and a great caravan of camels loaded with spices, large quantities of gold, and precious jewels. When she met with Solomon, she talked with him about everything she had on her mind. 3 Solomon had answers for all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her. 4 When the queen of Sheba realized how very wise Solomon was, and when she saw the palace he had built, 5 she was overwhelmed. She was also amazed at the food on his tables, the organization of his officials and their splendid clothing, the cup-bearers, and the burnt offerings Solomon made at the Temple of the Lord.
6 She exclaimed to the king, “Everything I heard in my country about your achievements[b] and wisdom is true! 7 I didn’t believe what was said until I arrived here and saw it with my own eyes. In fact, I had not heard the half of it! Your wisdom and prosperity are far beyond what I was told. 8 How happy your people[c] must be! What a privilege for your officials to stand here day after day, listening to your wisdom! 9 Praise the Lord your God, who delights in you and has placed you on the throne of Israel. Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he has made you king so you can rule with justice and righteousness.”
10 Then she gave the king a gift of 9,000 pounds[d] of gold, great quantities of spices, and precious jewels. Never again were so many spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
11 (In addition, Hiram’s ships brought gold from Ophir, and they also brought rich cargoes of red sandalwood[e] and precious jewels. 12 The king used the sandalwood to make railings for the Temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and to construct lyres and harps for the musicians. Never before or since has there been such a supply of sandalwood.)
13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba whatever she asked for, besides all the customary gifts he had so generously given. Then she and all her attendants returned to their own land.
Solomon’s Wealth and Splendor
14 Each year Solomon received about 25 tons[f] of gold. 15 This did not include the additional revenue he received from merchants and traders, all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of the land.
16 King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than fifteen pounds.[g] 17 He also made 300 smaller shields of hammered gold, each weighing nearly four pounds.[h] The king placed these shields in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.
18 Then the king made a huge throne, decorated with ivory and overlaid with fine gold. 19 The throne had six steps and a rounded back. There were armrests on both sides of the seat, and the figure of a lion stood on each side of the throne. 20 There were also twelve other lions, one standing on each end of the six steps. No other throne in all the world could be compared with it!
21 All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were solid gold, as were all the utensils in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. They were not made of silver, for silver was considered worthless in Solomon’s day!
22 The king had a fleet of trading ships of Tarshish that sailed with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the ships returned, loaded with gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.[i]
23 So King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king on earth. 24 People from every nation came to consult him and to hear the wisdom God had given him. 25 Year after year everyone who visited brought him gifts of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
26 Solomon built up a huge force of chariots and horses.[j] He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He stationed some of them in the chariot cities and some near him in Jerusalem. 27 The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.[k] 28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt[l] and from Cilicia[m]; the king’s traders acquired them from Cilicia at the standard price. 29 At that time chariots from Egypt could be purchased for 600 pieces of silver,[n] and horses for 150 pieces of silver.[o] They were then exported to the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.
Footnotes
- 10:1 Or which was due to the name of the Lord. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
- 10:6 Hebrew your words.
- 10:8 Greek and Syriac versions and Latin Vulgate read your wives.
- 10:10 Hebrew 120 talents [4,000 kilograms].
- 10:11 Hebrew almug wood; also in 10:12.
- 10:14 Hebrew 666 talents [23 metric tons].
- 10:16 Hebrew 600 [shekels] of gold [6.8 kilograms].
- 10:17 Hebrew 3 minas [1.8 kilograms].
- 10:22 Or and baboons.
- 10:26 Or charioteers; also in 10:26b.
- 10:27 Hebrew the Shephelah.
- 10:28a Possibly Muzur, a district near Cilicia; also in 10:29.
- 10:28b Hebrew Kue, probably another name for Cilicia.
- 10:29a Hebrew 600 [shekels] of silver, about 15 pounds or 6.8 kilograms in weight.
- 10:29b Hebrew 150 [shekels], about 3.8 pounds or 1.7 kilograms in weight.
1 Kings 10
King James Version
10 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.
2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.
4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,
5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.
6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
9 Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
15 Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one 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 the best gold.
19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
20 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.
21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels 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 nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
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