Since the queen of Sheba had been hearing report of Shelomoh in connection with Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with conundrums. She came to Yerushalaim with a very substantial force, camels carrying spices, very much gold and precious stones. She came to Shelomoh and spoke to him of everything that was in her mind, and Shelomoh told her about all the things she said. Nothing was concealed from the king that he didn’t tell her.
The queen of Sheba saw all Shelomoh’s smartness, the house that he had built, the food on his table, the seating of his servants, the standing of his ministers and their dress, his wine waiters, and his burnt offering that he would offer up at Yahweh’s house, and there was no longer any breath left in her.
She said to the king, ‘The thing was true that I heard in my country about your words and about your smartness. I didn’t trust in the words until I came and my eyes saw. But here, the half had not been told me. You have more smartness and good things than the report that I heard. The blessings of your people, the blessings of these servants of yours who are standing continually before you, listening to your smartness! May Yahweh your God be blessed, who delighted in you so as to put you on Yisra’el’s throne in Yahweh’s loyalty to Yisra’el, permanently. He made you king to exercise authority with faithfulness.’ She gave the king 120 talents of gold, very many spices and precious stones. There never again came spices in the quantity that the queen of Sheba gave King Shelomoh.
King Shelomoh himself gave the queen of Sheba all that she wanted, that she asked for, beyond what he gave her in accordance with what King Shelomoh possessed. Then she turned her face and went to her country, she and her servants.
Goldingay, John; GThe Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.