[¹] Or, sayings.
5. of thine acts] Literally of thy matters; the reference is quite general.
⁶Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: thou exceeded the fame that I heard. ⁷Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
6. the greatness of thy wisdom] Compare 1 Kings x. 7, “thy wisdom and prosperity.”
⁸Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on his throne, to be king for the Lord thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgement and justice.
8. on his throne] To the Chronicler the Israelite throne belongs to God; the visible king occupies it only as a deputy. Compare 1 Chronicles xxviii. 5, “the throne of the kingdom of the Lord”; 1 Chronicles xxix. 23, “Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord.” Contrast 1 Kings x. 9.
⁹And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
9. an hundred and twenty talents of gold] A sum so large must be regarded rather as tribute than as a complimentary gift.
any such spice] i.e. as in 1 Kings “such abundance of spices.”
¹⁰And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees[¹] and precious stones. ¹¹And the king made of the algum trees terraces for the house of the Lord, and for the king’s house, and harps and psalteries for the singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.