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**queen of Sheba.** Compare [2 Chronicles 9:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/9/1) .
**Sheba** , a grandson of Cush, settled in Ethiopia ([Genesis 10:7](../../../kjv/genesis/10/7) ): i.e. Nubia and North Abyssinia, where female sovereigns were not unusual. Compare [Acts 8:27](../../../kjv/acts/8/27) .
**heard** = kept hearing. By the commercial intercourse of [1 Kings 9:26-28](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/26-28) . Compare [2 Chronicles 8:17](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/17) ; [2 Chronicles 9:1](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/9/1) . Note her seven steps: heard ([1 Kings 10:1](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/1) ); came ([1 Kings 10:2](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/2) ); communed ([1 Kings 10:2](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/2) ); saw ([1 Kings 10:4](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/4) ); said ([1 Kings 10:6](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/6) ); gave ([1 Kings 10:10](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/10) ); returned ([1 Kings 10:13](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/13) ).
**fame** = report.
**hard** = abstruse, or difficult.

**she came.** Note the use of this made by the Lord Jesus in [Matthew 12:42](../../../kjv/matthew/12/42) .[Luke 11:31](../../../kjv/luke/11/31) .
**Solomon.** Some codices, with four early printed editions, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "King Solomon".

**sitting** = seated assembly.
**attendance** = standing.
**ascent.** The covered stairway connecting Mount Zion (Jebus) with Mount Moriah. Compare [2 Kings 16:18](../../../kjv/2-kings/16/18) . Ascent is the word for burnt or "ascending offering", by the merits of which we ascend now.
**spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .

**acts** = words.

**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .

**delighted.** See note on [Numbers 14:8](../../../kjv/numbers/14/8) . [2 Samuel 15:26](../../../kjv/2-samuel/15/26) .
**justice** = righteousness.

**navy also of Hiram.** Joined with Solomon ([1 Kings 10:22](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/22) ; [1 Kings 9:27](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/27) , [1 Kings 9:28](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/28) ).
**Ophir.** See note on [2 Chronicles 8:18](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/8/18) .

**of his royal bounty.** Hebrew according to the hand of king Solomon.

**came.** Probably in tariffs.
**six hundred threescore and six** = 666. Symbolical of the height or essence of man's desire, but all vanity ( App-10 ). Compare [Ecclesiastes 2:8](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/2/8) , [Ecclesiastes 2:11](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/2/11) . [1 Timothy 6:10](../../../kjv/1-timothy/6/10) .

**shields.** Taken away by Shishak in the reign of Rehoboam ([1 Kings 14:26](../../../kjv/1-kings/14/26) ).

**the best** = pure.

**top** = canopy.
**stays** = supports. Literally hands.

**navy of Tharshish** = Tharshish ships, a name for large ocean-going ships (like English "East-Indiamen"). When mentioned as a place it is identified by Oppert with Tartessis = the Andalusia of to-day, noted for silver (not gold), iron, tin, and lead ([Jeremiah 10:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/10/9) . [Ezekiel 27:12](../../../kjv/ezekiel/27/12) ). They sailed from Tyre to the West Mediterranean, and from Ezion-geber to Ophir (Arabia, India, and East Africa), [1 Kings 9:26-28](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/26-28) and [1 Kings 10:11](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/11) .
**ivory** = elephants' tusks.
**apes, and peacocks.** The Hebrew for these are Indian words (Tamil).

**brought** = kept bringing.

**sycomore.** Not English, but Eastern; a kind of fig, or mulberry.

**horses.** Compare [Isaiah 31:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/31/1) ; [Isaiah 36:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/36/9) . Also [Ezekiel 17:15](../../../kjv/ezekiel/17/15) .
**linen yarn.** Probably = by strings, or droves (i.e. the horses).

**kings of the Hittites.** Compare [1 Samuel 26:6](../../../kjv/1-samuel/26/6) . [2 Kings 7:6](../../../kjv/2-kings/7/6) . These passages alleged to be unhistoric! but they are confirmed by the discoveries made in 1874 throughout Asia Minor and North Syria, which identify them with the "sons of Heth" ([Genesis 23:3](../../../kjv/genesis/23/3) , [Genesis 23:5](../../../kjv/genesis/23/5) , [Genesis 23:7](../../../kjv/genesis/23/7) ; [Genesis 25:10](../../../kjv/genesis/25/10) ; [Genesis 27:46](../../../kjv/genesis/27/46) ; [Genesis 49:32](../../../kjv/genesis/49/32) ), the *Khatta* of the Accadian and the *Kheta* of the Egyptian records. They contended on equal terms with Assyria and Egypt. Crushed by Sargon II, 717 B.C. Chief centers, Carchemish on the Euphrates and Kadesh on the Upper Orontes.
**by their means.** Hebrew by their hand. Hand put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for what is done by it: by means of Solomon's merchants.

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