Solomon: Israel’s Wisest King (30): The Queen of Sheba Travels to Jerusalem (I Kings 10:1-5) by Rev. Angus Stewart
I. Why Did She Go There?
II. What Did She Do There?
Psalm singing: 84:1-6; 27:6-9a; 72:10-15; 1:1-6 (see below for the words to the Psalms)
Scripture reading: I Kings 10

Psalm 84:1-6
1 HOW lovely is thy dwelling-place,
0 Lord of hosts, to me!
The tabernacles of thy grace
how pleasant, Lord, they be !
2 My thirsty soul longs veh’mently,
yea faints, thy courts to see:
My very heart and flesh cry out,
0 living God, for thee.
3 Behold, the sparrow findeth out
an house wherein to rest;
The swallow also for herself
hath purchased a nest;
Ev’n thine own altars, where she safe
her young ones forth may bring,
O thou almighty Lord of hosts,
who art my God and King.
4 Bless’d are they in thy house that dwell,
they ever give thee praise.
5 Bless’d is the man whose strength thou
in whose heart are thy ways: [art,
6 Who passing thorough Baca’s vale,
therein do dig up wells;
Also the rain that falleth down
the pools with water fills

Psalm 27:6-9a
6 And now, ev’n at this present time,
mine head shall lifted be
Above all those that are my foes,
and round encompass me:
Therefore unto his tabernacle
I’ll sacrifices bring
Of joyfulness; I’ll sing, yea, I
to God will praises sing.
7 O Lord, give ear unto my voice,
when I do cry to thee;
Upon me also mercy have,
and do thou answer me.
8 When thou didst say, Seek ye my face,
then unto thee reply
Thus did my heart, Above all things
thy face, Lord, seek will I.
9 Far from me hide not thou thy face;
put not away from thee
Thy servant in thy wrath : thou hast
an helper been to me.

Psalm 72:10-15
10 The kings of Tarshish, and the isles,
to him shall presents bring;
And unto him shall offer gifts
Sheba’s and Seba’s king.
11 Yea, all the mighty kings on earth
before him down shall fall;
And all the nations of the world
do service to him shall.
12 For he the needy shall preserve,
when he to him doth call;
The poor also, and him that hath
no help of man at all.
13 The poor man and the indigent
in mercy he shall spare;
He shall preserve alive the souls
of those that needy are.
14 Both from deceit and violence
their soul he shall set free ;
And in his sight right precious
and dear their blood shall be.
15 Yea, he shall live, and giv’n to him
shall be of Sheba’s gold :
For him still shall they pray, and he
shall daily be extoll’d.

Psalm 1:1-6
1 THAT man hath perfect blessedness
who walketh not astray
In counsel of ungodly men,
nor stands in sinners’ way,
Nor sitteth in the scorner’s chair:
2 But placeth his delight
Upon God’s law, and meditates
on his law day and night.
3 He shall be like a tree that grows
near planted by a river,
Which in his season yields his fruit,
and his leaf fadeth never :
And all he doth shall prosper well.
4 The wicked are not so ;
But like they are unto the chaff,
which wind drives to and fro.
5 In judgment therefore shall not stand
such as ungodly are ;
Nor in th’ assembly of the just
shall wicked men appear.
6 For why? the way of godly men
unto the Lord is known :
Whereas the way of wicked men
shall quite be overthrown.