The Queen of Sheba, Riches and Solomon's Death

"And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem." "Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God."

Six hundred sixty-six talents of gold a year; a great ivory throne; "all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon." "And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen."

"Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam?" Solomon reigns forty years and "slept with his fathers."

"On his throne… for the LORD"

1 Kings 10:9: "set thee on the throne of Israel." Chronicles: "on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God." The kingdom is the LORD's.

What is left out

1 Kings 11 (700 wives, Solomon's idolatry, Hadad, Rezon, Jeroboam's rebellion) has no parallel. Chronicles keeps Solomon an ideal temple-builder; its readers knew Kings.

4,000 or 40,000

2 Chronicles 9:25 has 4,000 stalls; 1 Kings 4:26 has 40,000 (the library's Vulgate of 9:25 also has 40,000).

Named prophetic sources

Nathan, Ahijah and Iddo are cited; none of their writings survives separately.