2 Chronicles 9:1

IX.

(ii) SOLOMON’S WISDOM, WEALTH, AND GLORY. HIS DEATH.

(a) THE VISIT OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA (2 Chronicles 9:1).
Comp. 1 Kings 10:1.

The Hebrew text coincides with Kings, allowing for a few characteristic alterations, the chief of which will be noticed.
(1) And when the queen of Sheba heard. — Now the queen of Sheba had heard. Kings, was hearing.

The fame of Solomon. — Kings, adds a difficult phrase (“as to the name of Jehovah”) which the chronicler omits.

Hard questions. — Riddles, enigmas. LXX., αἰνίγμασιν (Judges 14:12).

At Jerusalem. — An abridgment but not an improvement of Kings. The Syr. agrees with the latter.

Gold in abundance. — The chronicler has substituted a favourite expression for the “very much gold” of Kings.