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Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Kings 10:1-29

3. Solomon’s greatness ch. 10This chapter summarizes with illustrations and statistics the wisdom, acceptance, and riches with which God blessed Solomon. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Kings 10:14-29

Solomon’s wealth 10:14-29This pericope summarizes Solomon’s wealth as the previous one summarized his wisdom. God brought much wealth to Solomon, almost 25 tons of gold a year (1 Kings 10:14), plus many other riches."Those who would consider his income of 666 talents (ca. 21.6 tons) of gold exaggeration should compare this with amounts registered in ancient Egypt about this time, ’where gold is like dust in the land’ and Osorkon I in his first four years (ca. 924-920 BC) accumulated eighteen... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 10:1-29

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba1. Sheba] the Sheba of Genesis 10:28 (in Arabia), not of Genesis 10:7 (in Africa). Arabia seems frequently to have been ruled by queens; more than one is mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions. If Ophir was in Arabia (see on 1 Kings 9:28), it may have been through the traders at that port that the queen here alluded to had heard of Solomon.Hard questions] These were probably of the nature of puzzles or riddles, the same word being used of Samson’s riddle (Judges... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Kings 10:16-17

(16, 17) The shields overlaid with gold—the larger called “targets,” and the lesser called “shields”—were evidently used for ornamenting the king’s palace, and (as we may gather from the notice in 2 Chronicles 12:11, of the brazen shields which superseded them) taken down and borne before the king on solemn occasions, as “when he went to the house of the Lord.” We have notices of shields of gold among the Syrians of Zobah (2 Samuel 8:7; 1 Chronicles 18:7), and of shields hung on the walls of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Kings 10:17

(17) Pound—that is, maneh, equal (see 2 Chronicles 10:16) to one hundred shekels. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 10:1-20

SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY1 Kings 10:1-20."O Luxury! thou curs’d by Heaven’s decree! How do thy potions with insidious joy Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy! Kingdoms by thee to sickly greatness-grown Boast of a florid vigor not their own."GOLDSMITH, Deserted Village."The Queen of the South shall rise up in judgment against this generation, and shall condemn it: For she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon."- Matthew 12:42.THE history of the Temple is the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Kings 10:1-29

6. Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: His great Riches and Splendour CHAPTER 10 1. The visit of the Queen (1 Kings 10:1-13 ) 2. Solomon’s enormous wealth (1 Kings 10:14-15 ) 3. the targets and shields (1 Kings 10:16-17 ) 4. The ivory throne (1 Kings 10:18-20 ) 5. The abundance of gold and the depreciation of silver (1 Kings 10:21-22 ) 6. The greatest living monarch (1 Kings 10:23-26 ) 7. His chariots and horsemen (1 Kings 10:27-29 ) The visit of the Queen of Sheba, who had heard of... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Kings 10:1-29

THE VISIT OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA (vs.1-13) News of Solomon's greatness spread through the nations. It was not however his greatness itself that impressed the Queen of Sheba, but his fame concerning the name of the Lord (v.1). Solomon pictures the Lord Jesus in His great splendor of reigning in the millennium, and the Queen of Sheba indicates the interest of at least some nations awakened at that time to come to inquire of One so renowned for His wisdom. At the same time the Queen of Sheba is... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 10:1-29

CLOSE OF SOLOMON ’S REIGN WISDOM AND WEALTH (1 Kings 9:26 to 1 Kings 10:29 ) A look at a map in the back of your Bible may identify the locality of 1 Kings 9:26 , whence Solomon, with Hiram’s help, extended his influence by sea. Ophir (1 Kings 9:28 ) has been regarded as a general name for all the southern territory in the neighborhood of the inland seas. A “talent” is not easy to estimate but, on the supposition of some that a talent of gold represented about $30,000, we have here a... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - 1 Kings 10:1-29

The Queen of Sheba 1Ki 10:1-9 THE queen of Sheba was an earnest inquirer. She was not content with the reports which she had heard in her own land; she bethought her that she would put to the test this man of marvellous wisdom, whose gifts of expression, both in speech and in song, were unrivalled. She thought she knew something which even he could not answer. She would have her own questions put in her own way. That is what every earnest inquirer must insist upon. No man can ask another... read more

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