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**when the queen of Sheba heard.** For further notes, see the parallel passages in [1 Kings 10](../../../kjv/1-kings/10) . App-56 .

**questions** = words, or matters.

**wisdom.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause) for the effects produced by it.
**and.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* ( App-6 ) in verses: [2 Chronicles 9:3](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/9/3) and [2 Chronicles 9:4](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/9/4) ,

**ascent:** i.e. the causeway of [1 Chronicles 26:16](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/26/16) , [1 Chronicles 26:18](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/26/18) .
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .

**It was a true report.** Hebrew The word was truth.

**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.*

**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .
**justice** = righteousness.

**algum trees.** See note on [1 Kings 10:11](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/11) .

**terraces** = stairs, or balustrades. Compare [1 Kings 10:12](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/12) .

**she had brought.** This, like other differences, is complementary.

**six hundred and threescore and six.** App-10 .

**chapmen.** Hebrew. *tur,* travelers, or merchants, Eng. = cheapmen, or traffickers.

**targets** = pointed or bossed shields. Hebrew. *zinnah.*

**shields** = covering or protecting shields. Hebrew. *maginnim.*
**house of the forest of Lebanon.** This is the palace of cedar in Jerusalem ([1 Kings 7:2](../../../kjv/1-kings/7/2) ).

**six.** See App-10 .
**stays** = supports. Hebrew = hands.

**pure** = purified.

**the.** No article in the Hebrew here.

**harness** = armour.

**four thousand.** See note on [1 Kings 4:26](../../../kjv/1-kings/4/26) .

**reigned** = was suzerain.
**river:** i.e. Euphrates.
**border.** Not river. [Genesis 15:18](../../../kjv/genesis/15/18) yet waits fulfillment.

**horses.** Yet horses out of Egypt had a leading part in destroying Judah. Compare [2 Chronicles 12:3](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/12/3) , 2Ch 12:4 , [2 Chronicles 12:9](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/12/9) . [Psalms 33:17](../../../kjv/psalms/33/17) .

**prophet. seer.** Hebrew. *nabi. chozeh.* See note on [1 Chronicles 29:29](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/29/29) .
**against Jeroboam.** So that he had warning from God.

**slept with his fathers.** See note on [Deuteronomy 31:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/31/16) . Solomon died at the age of sixty.

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