8. Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
9. Blessed is 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 one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
11. The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees and precious stones.
12. The king made of the almug trees pillars for the Lord’s house, and for the king’s house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers; no such almug trees came or were seen, to this day.