Synopsis of the Chapter
The Queen of Sheba comes to Solomon. The annual revenues of Solomon, lances, shields, and other golden furnishings, the throne of ivory interwoven with gold, his death and burial.
Verse 5: Of Your Accomplishments ¶
5. OF YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. — The Hebrew, Septuagint, and Chaldean have: of your words, that is, of your deeds accomplished by you, or things pertaining to you.
Verse 16: In the Armory Set with a Grove ¶
16. IN THE ARMORY WHICH WAS SET WITH A GROVE — that is, in the house of the forest of Lebanon, as the Septuagint translates. Moreover the three hundred and six hundred gold pieces of the shields and lances were shekels, each of which weighed and was worth four drachmas, that is, four crowns, as I showed in 3 Kings chapter X, verse 16.
Verse 21: To Tarshish ¶
21. TO TARSHISH. — The Hebrews called the sea, and thence overseas regions, Tarshish; especially distant ones, unknown to them, such as Ophir and India. See what was said in 3 Kings chapter IX, verse 28, and Jonah chapter I, verse 3.