7. Your people and officials are lucky to be here where they can listen to the wise things you say.
8. I praise the Lord your God. He is pleased with you and has made you king of Israel. God loves the people of this country and will never desert them, so he has given them a king who will rule fairly and honestly.
9. The Queen of Sheba gave Solomon more than four thousand kilogrammes of gold, a large amount of jewels, and the best spices anyone had ever seen.
13. Solomon received almost twenty-three thousand kilogrammes of gold each year,
14. not counting what the merchants and traders brought him. The kings of Arabia and the leaders of Israel also gave him gold and silver.
15. Solomon made two hundred gold shields that weighed over three kilogrammes each.