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(Wed. 1 Kings 10:1–25,11:41–43) 1–12. Visit to Solomon by the Queen of Sheba. 23–28. Riches, luxury and glory of Solomon. 29–31. Concluding remarks on the reign of Solomon. 2 Chronicles 9:1. The Queen of Sheba, having heard about Solomon's glory, came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with riddles, with very great wealth, and with camels loaded with incense and a lot of gold and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and talked with him about everything that was in her heart. 2 Chronicles 9:2. And Solomon explained to her all her words, and there was nothing unfamiliar to Solomon that he would not explain to her. 2 Chronicles 9:3. And the Queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon and the house that he had built, 2 Chronicles 9:4. and the food at his table, and the dwelling of his servants, and the order of his servants and their clothing, and his butlers and their clothing, and the way in which he went to the house of the Lord - and she was beside herself. 2 Chronicles 9:5. And she said to the king, “It is true that I heard in my land about your works and about your wisdom, 2 Chronicles 9:6. but I did not believe the words about them until I came and saw them with my own eyes. And behold, I have not been told half of the abundance of your wisdom: you surpass the rumors that I have heard. 2 Chronicles 9:7. Blessed are your people, and blessed are these your servants, who always stand before you and hear your wisdom! 2 Chronicles 9:8. Blessed be the Lord your God, Who has been pleased to place you on His throne as king of the Lord your God. According to the love of your God for Israel, in order to establish it forever, He made you king over it - to do justice and righteousness. 2 Chronicles 9:9. And she gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold and a great quantity of spices and precious stones; and there was no such incense as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. 2 Chronicles 9:10. And the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought mahogany and precious stones. 2 Chronicles 9:11. And the king made of this mahogany staircases to the house of the Lord and to the king's house, and harps and psalms for the singers. And the like of this had never been seen before in the land of Judea. 2 Chronicles 9:12. King Solomon gave the Queen of Sheba everything that she wanted and that she asked for, except for such things as she brought to the king. And she went back to her land, she and her servants. The narrative of 2 Chronicles about Solomon’s visit to the Queen of Sheba is almost word for word similar to the parallel story (1 Kings 10:1–13) (see The Explanatory Bible, vol. II, pp. 413–414). In euros In the text, the structure built by Solomon for the church and for the palace is named differently in both books: according to (2 Chronicles 9:11) mesillot - “stairs”, LXX: ἀναβάσεις, Vulgata: Gradus, syllable: “degrees”, according to (1 Kings 10:12) - misad, "railing". The archeology of the Old Testament church resolves this issue in favor of the terminology of 2 Chronicles (Olesnitsky, “Old Testament Church,” p. 248). 2 Chronicles 9:13. The weight in gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold. 2 Chronicles 9:14. Moreover, the ambassadors and merchants brought, and all the kings of Arabia and the rulers of the region brought gold and silver to Solomon. 2 Chronicles 9:15. And King Solomon made two hundred great shields of beaten gold, and six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to each shield, 2 Chronicles 9:16. and three hundred smaller shields of beaten gold, three hundred shekels of gold for each shield; and the king set them in a house of Lebanon wood. 2 Chronicles 9:17. And the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold, 2 Chronicles 9:18. and six steps to the throne, and a golden stool attached to the throne, and armrests on both sides of the seat, and two lions standing near the armrests, 2 Chronicles 9:19. and twelve more lions standing there on six steps, on either side. There was no such [throne] in any kingdom. 2 Chronicles 9:20. And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of Lebanon were of choice gold; silver in the days of Solomon was worth nothing, Wed (1 Kings 10:14–21). On the structure of the throne or royal throne of Solomon according to Jewish tradition, see comments to (1 Kings 7:7) in the “Explanatory Bible,” vol. II, p. 394. 2 Chronicles 9:21. for the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram, and every three years the ships returned from Tarshish and brought gold and silver, ivory and monkeys and peacocks. Wed. (1 Kings 10:22). At this point in 2 Chronicles, as in (2 Chron. 20:36-37), it appears that Solomon's fleet was sailing to Tarshish; in fact, he went to Ophir, and the name “Tarshish” has a different meaning. See The Interpretive Bible, vol. II, p. 415. 2 Chronicles 9:25. And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; and he placed them in the cities of the chariots and under the king - in Jerusalem; 2 Chronicles 9:26. and he ruled over all the kings, from the river Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the borders of Egypt. 2 Chronicles 9:27. And the king made the [gold and] silver in Jerusalem equal to a simple stone, and the cedars, because of their abundance, made them equal to the sycamore trees that are in the low places. 2 Chronicles 9:28. Horses were brought to Solomon from Egypt and from all lands. Here is only Art. 26 gives a new thought (cf. 1 Kings 4:21), while verses 25,27-28 represent a repetition of what was said in (2 Chronicles 1:14-17). Wed. also (1 Kings 10:26–27) and (1 Kings 4:26). The number of stalls or chariots that Solomon had in different places and according to different texts is not the same: in this place 2 Chronicles and (1 Kings 4:26) - 40,000 stalls (according to some codes LXX and Vulgata, as well as the Slavic text - 40,000 horses); according to (2 Chronicles 1:14) and (1 Kings 10:26) – 1,400 chariots. But for 1,400 chariots there was no need for 40,000 horses; probably should read: 4,000 horses (Prof. Gulyaev, “Historical Books of the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament,” p. 514; Prof. Olesnitsky, “Old Testament Church,” p. 646; “Explanatory Bible,” vol. II, p. 382). 2 Chronicles 9:29. Other acts of Solomon, the first and the last, are described in the records of Nathan the prophet and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilomite and in the visions of the seer Joel about Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. 2 Chronicles 9:30. So Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel for forty years. 2 Chronicles 9:31. And Solomon slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. Wed. (1 Kings 11:41–43). The fall of Solomon and the judgment of God upon him and the house of God, as recounted in 1 Kings 11:1–40, are not included in the narratives of 2 Chronicles: the chronicle nature of the books of Chronicles and the special purpose of these books, apparently, did not allow the inclusion of the material mentioned in the narrative (just as the political court incidents recounted in chapters 1–11 of 1 Kings were not included in the book). Chronicles) 4. The chronicle and documentary nature of the books of Chronicles is noted here (v. 29) with a detailed indication of the works of famous prophets - historiographers; Nathan, Ahijah, Ieddo, while in the parallel verse (1 Kings 11:41) only the “book of the deeds of Solomon” is named in general. “Prophet Nathan is one of those persons about whom in the book. Chronicles is mentioned more than once, but whose writings have not reached us. The prophet Nathan is mentioned in (2 Kings 7:2–17; 1 Kings 1:8–45; Ps.50:1; 1 Chronicles 17:1–15,29:29; 2 Chronicles 9:29,29:25). From these places it is clear that he had significant influence on both political and church affairs” (Prof. Gulyaev, “Historical Books of the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament,” pp. 514–515). Ahijah the Shilohite is known only from predictions: about the division of the Jewish kingdom into two (1 Kings 11:29–39) and about the destruction of the house of Jeroboam (1 Kings 14:4–16; 2 Chronicles 10:15); in addition, according to this place, he compiled chronicles. The latter is also known about Ieddo, mentioned back in (2 Chronicles 12:15,13:22). Chapters 11–36, which form the second and most of the second book of Chronicles, contain the narrative of all the kings of the kingdom of Judah from the moment of the separation of Israel from it until the fall of the first with the Babylonian captivity. It is precisely the special nature and purpose of the book’s narrative. Chronicles, and not an arbitrary tendentious distortion of ancient records by a post-exilic writer, as J. Wellhausen believes, for example, was the reason for the noted differences in the narrative of 3 Kings and 2 Chronicles about the reign of Solomon. According to Wellhausen (Wellhausen J., Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels. Berlin, 1886, S.S. 192–193), on the contrary, in 2 Chronicles “the ancient image (of the reign of Solomon) is so shaded that all the dark and unpleasant features are destroyed and instead new and brilliant colors are inserted, not in the spirit of the original, but in the taste of the time: Levitical priests, fire from heaven, the fulfillment of all the righteousness of the law and a lot of music, in addition, all sorts of legendary anachronisms and exaggerations. 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