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2 Chronicles 9:1-12 - Asking God Tough Questions · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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  Speaker 1: How to their friends and faithful listeners and Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, explained on this absolutely beautiful morning, and I
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  Speaker 1: am so thankful you're here with me on the podcast
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  Speaker 1: today we're going to be talking about the Queen of Sheba,
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  Speaker 1: who she was, what she did, and why Jesus commends
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  Speaker 1: her in the New Testament. So I really hope your
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  Speaker 1: week is going well so far mine is going just splendidly.
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  Speaker 1: Though I am shocked that Thanksgiving is in like a week.
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  Speaker 1: I am just not ready for it this year, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm still looking forward to it because my family is
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  Speaker 1: my sister and my niece and my brother in law
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  Speaker 1: and just hang out with them, and so we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be doing that next week, which I'm looking forward to.
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  Speaker 1: But faithful listeners, let me know what you do for Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: where you go, and your Thanksgiving traditions that you do. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I know somebody who one of their Thanksgiving traditions every
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  Speaker 1: year is playing football with a frozen turkey, and I
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  Speaker 1: your super unique tradition is for Thanksgiving, because I've heard
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  Speaker 1: quite a few of them I'd like to know yours
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  Speaker 1: as well. You can contact me. You'll find my contact
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  Speaker 1: information listed in the description of this episode. But let's
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and read Second Chronicles nine one through twelve today.
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  Speaker 1: As always, I will be reading from the web version,
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  Speaker 1: but feel free to grab the version of the Bible
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  Speaker 1: you prefer this morning. And also your cup of coffee
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  Speaker 1: or your cup of tea for you crazy tea drinkers,
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  Speaker 1: let's go ahead and share a hot beverage together as
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  Speaker 1: we enjoy reading God's word. When the Queen of Sheba
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  Speaker 1: heard of the famous Solomon, she came to test Solomon
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  Speaker 1: with hard questions at Jerusalem with a very great caravan,
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  Speaker 1: including camels that bore spices, golden abundance, and precious stones.
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  Speaker 1: When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him
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  Speaker 1: about all that was in her heart. Solomon answered all
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  Speaker 1: her questions. There wasn't anything hidden from Solomon which he
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell her. When the Queen of Sheba had seen
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
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  Speaker 1: the food of his table, the seating of his servants,
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  Speaker 1: the attendants of his ministers, their clothing, his cupbearers and
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  Speaker 1: their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up
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  Speaker 1: to Yawai's house. There was no more spirit in her.
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  Speaker 1: She said to the king, it was a true report
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  Speaker 1: that I heard in my own land of your acts
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  Speaker 1: and of your wisdom. However, I didn't believe their words
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  Speaker 1: until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold,
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  Speaker 1: half the greatness of your wisdom. Wasn't told me. You
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  Speaker 1: exceed the fame that I heard. Happy are your men? Happy?
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  Speaker 1: Are these your servants who stand continually before you and
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  Speaker 1: hear your wisdom? Blessed be Yahweh, or God who delighted
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  Speaker 1: in you and set you on his throne to be
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  Speaker 1: king for Yahweh your God. Because God loved Israel to
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  Speaker 1: establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them
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  Speaker 1: to do justice and righteousness. She gave the king one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great abundance,
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  Speaker 1: and precious stones. There was never before such spice as
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  Speaker 1: the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. Servants of
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  Speaker 1: Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from
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  Speaker 1: ofir also brought algam trees and precious stones. The king
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  Speaker 1: used the algam tree wood to make terraces for yaway's
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  Speaker 1: house and for the king's house, and harps and stringed
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  Speaker 1: instruments for the singers. There were none like these scene
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  Speaker 1: before in the Land of Judah. King Solomon gave to
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  Speaker 1: the Queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked,
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  Speaker 1: more than that which she had brought to the king.
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  Speaker 1: So she turned and went into her own land. She
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  Speaker 1: and her servants. In the previous chapter we talked about
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  Speaker 1: the great wisdom of Solomon and also how he was
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  Speaker 1: a really good king for the prosperity of Israel. And
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  Speaker 1: now his fame is spreading all over the world because
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  Speaker 1: the Queen of Sheba ends up hearing about him. So
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  Speaker 1: this would have been a queen in the Land of Sheba.
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  Speaker 1: Sheba was probably in modern day Yemen or modern day Ethiopia,
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  Speaker 1: though it's not one hundred percent sure where the Land
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  Speaker 1: of Sheba is located. The reason people guess that it
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  Speaker 1: was either Ethiopia or Yemen is because those two regions
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  Speaker 1: in Solomon's day were known for having queens as their
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  Speaker 1: primary leaders, not just kings, and not to mention, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: called the Queen of Sheba the Queen of the South.
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  Speaker 1: Both Yemen and Ethiopia are south of Israel. So actually,
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  Speaker 1: if we turn to Matthew twelve, let's read what Jesus
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  Speaker 1: says about the Queen of Sheba. He mentions her very
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  Speaker 1: briefly in verse forty two as an example of what
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  Speaker 1: to do. He says, the Queen of the South, or
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  Speaker 1: the Queen of Sheba, will rise up in the judgment
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  Speaker 1: with this generation and will condemn it. For she came
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  Speaker 1: from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom
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  Speaker 1: of Solomon. And behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus actually commends the Queen of Sheba for going
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  Speaker 1: and visiting Solomon, because she traveled a great distance to
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  Speaker 1: go see him. She heard of his wisdom, and that
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  Speaker 1: prompted her to make a fourteen hundred mile journey just
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  Speaker 1: to see him. This would have taken months and months
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  Speaker 1: and months. And I mean, when you think of queens,
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  Speaker 1: you think of somebody that enjoys their luxuries and their
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  Speaker 1: comforts and probably doesn't want to make a dusty, terrible
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  Speaker 1: trip through the desert for several months just to meet
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  Speaker 1: a man. And yet the Queen of Sheba was willing
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  Speaker 1: to do that because she heard of Solomon's great wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why Jesus commends her. He's like, you guys
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  Speaker 1: should be more like the Queen of Sheba, who actually
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  Speaker 1: pursued wisdom. Instead, you guys refuse to listen to anything
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  Speaker 1: that I say, even though I am greater than Solomon
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  Speaker 1: in my wisdom, because of course, Jesus is the son
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  Speaker 1: of God and has all wisdom available to him. So
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  Speaker 1: that's why Jesus is like, you won't even travel a
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  Speaker 1: mile to come see the Son of God. Yet the
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Sheba traverses the entire desert to go meet
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  Speaker 1: King Solomon. But let's get into this story a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more so, going back to Second Chronicles nine one
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  Speaker 1: through four, here's what it says. When the Queen of
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  Speaker 1: Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to
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  Speaker 1: test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem with a very
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  Speaker 1: great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance,
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  Speaker 1: and precious stones. So it's very likely that this queen
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  Speaker 1: was very powerful in her own right. If she were
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  Speaker 1: from the land of Yemen, that would have been an
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  Speaker 1: area of trade at this time, so she would have
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  Speaker 1: been a queen very knowledgeable in trade, and so it
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  Speaker 1: could be that the reason she heard of Solomon was
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  Speaker 1: because Solomon in his own right was now beginning trading
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  Speaker 1: in different countries. You know, we talked in the last
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  Speaker 1: chapter about how Solomon was making the Israelites seafarers, and
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  Speaker 1: they were going as far as oh Fear, which some
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  Speaker 1: people actually think is India to get all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: goods and beautiful things from Ofear and bring them back
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  Speaker 1: to Israel. So if the Queen of Sheba was also
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  Speaker 1: in the trading business, it's very likely that she would
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  Speaker 1: have heard about Solomon beginning all of these trade deals
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  Speaker 1: in the land of o Fear, which caused her to
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  Speaker 1: become very interested in who he was. You know, a
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  Speaker 1: powerful king is now entering the picture, and his fame
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  Speaker 1: is like legendary. So she hears all of these rumors
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  Speaker 1: and she decides, I'm gonna go visit this Solomon guy
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  Speaker 1: and really see who this man is, because I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe these reports about him. So I'm going to bring
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  Speaker 1: him riddles and really hard questions to ask him and
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  Speaker 1: see if he can actually answer them. So she came
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  Speaker 1: to actually test Solomon and to gain wisdom from him.
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  Speaker 1: As well if he was the real deal. So she
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  Speaker 1: comes with a great caravan, because you know, when kings
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  Speaker 1: and queens visited each other, they came with gifts. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it would be pretty rude for the Queen
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  Speaker 1: of Sheba to just go and pick Solomon's brain without
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  Speaker 1: anything in return. So she comes with a huge caravan,
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  Speaker 1: including camels that bore spices, golden abundance, and precious stones.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a big parade. You know. When she
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  Speaker 1: entered the city of Jerusalem. I'm sure people were like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, who is here in this city? Like coming
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  Speaker 1: to visit King Solomon. This was probably a really exciting thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for everybody in Jerusalem. So it says that
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  Speaker 1: she came to Solomon and she asked him questions about
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  Speaker 1: all that was in her heart. She asked him about
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  Speaker 1: all the riddles that she prepared for him, not to mention,
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  Speaker 1: probably political questions and hard cultural questions. She just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see who Solomon was and how he was going
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  Speaker 1: to answer these things. She was testing his wisdom, and
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  Speaker 1: it says Solomon passed the test. In verse two. He
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  Speaker 1: answered all her questions. There wasn't anything hidden from Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: which he didn't tell her every single hard question that
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  Speaker 1: she had. Solomon had an excellent anthem her, for he
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  Speaker 1: answered all her questions perfectly because he was a wise man.
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  Speaker 1: God actually told Solomon he was going to be the
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  Speaker 1: wisest man on the planet. So Solomon used that wisdom
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  Speaker 1: to answer all of the queen's questions. And so it
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  Speaker 1: says in verse three, when the Queen of Sheba had
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  Speaker 1: seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
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  Speaker 1: the food of his table, the seating of his servants,
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  Speaker 1: the attendants of his ministers, their clothing, his cupbears and
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  Speaker 1: their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up
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  Speaker 1: to Yawi's house, there was no more spirit in her.
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  Speaker 1: So essentially she gave up. She was like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: give up. This man is fantastic, his kingdom is fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I truly believe the reports that I heard. Now. But
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  Speaker 1: notice here that it says after she had seen all
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  Speaker 1: these things, that was when she finally believed the reports
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  Speaker 1: that she heard, which means that she definitely came as
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  Speaker 1: a skeptic of Solomon. And that's another thing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: don't forget. Jesus actually commended the Queen of Sheba. He
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  Speaker 1: commended her for getting answers to these questions. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: God does not get upset with us when we have
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  Speaker 1: questions for him. It actually says that we should take
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  Speaker 1: these questions to God and that He will not be
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  Speaker 1: angry with us for asking for wisdom for these questions
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  Speaker 1: that we have. You know, I can't tell you how
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  Speaker 1: many times that's happened to me where I'm reading something
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you guys about it, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doubting something, or I'm going through some kind of
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  Speaker 1: heart problem, or I'm just unsure of what the scripture
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  Speaker 1: is actually saying, and I'm like, how am I going
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  Speaker 1: to present this and talk about this to all the
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  Speaker 1: faithful listeners when I don't have a good answer myself,
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  Speaker 1: when I'm doubting or you know, being a skeptic about
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  Speaker 1: something I'm reading. I can't tell you how many times
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  Speaker 1: I've gone to God with these questions and He just
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  Speaker 1: like reveals something to me. God God answers questions. And
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  Speaker 1: if Jesus was commending the Queen of Sheba, who was
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  Speaker 1: a skeptic going and seeking for those answers, God commends
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  Speaker 1: us for doing the same thing, not just being like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe this Bible. You know, it seems corrupted
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  Speaker 1: or it seems too old. I'm just not gonna believe it.
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't commend that, but he does commend you when
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  Speaker 1: you have questions about the Bible where you might not
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  Speaker 1: believe something it says, but you take those questions to
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  Speaker 1: God and you actually try to find answers to them.
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  Speaker 1: You are seeking after God, you are seeking after the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus commends that. So, yeah, if you have questions,
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  Speaker 1: take them to God. He is not going to get
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  Speaker 1: angry at you for your questions. So the Queen of
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  Speaker 1: Sheba gets the answers to her questions, and she was
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  Speaker 1: so impressed that there is no more spirit in her.
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  Speaker 1: So she was like dead inside saw all of these things,
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, yeah, this is way beyond me, way
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  Speaker 1: beyond my kingdom. I give up. So she says to
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  Speaker 1: the king in verse five, it was a true report
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  Speaker 1: that I heard in my own land of your acts
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  Speaker 1: and of your wisdom. However, I didn't believe their words
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  Speaker 1: until I came and my eyes had seen it, and
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  Speaker 1: behold half of the greatness of your wisdom. Wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: told to me. You exceed the fame that I heard.
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  Speaker 1: So she's like, you know, when I first heard the
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  Speaker 1: reports of how wise you were in my own kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't believe them at all. And She's like, and
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  Speaker 1: yet they were true, and they weren't even the full truth,
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  Speaker 1: because now I'm actually looking and seeing how impressive you
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  Speaker 1: actually are, how wise you truly are, and how great
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  Speaker 1: Israel has become. She says in verse seven, happy are
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  Speaker 1: your men, Happy are your servants who stand continually before
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  Speaker 1: you and hear your wisdom. Now this does not mean that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Solomon's servants were like singing and dancing with joy as
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  Speaker 1: they were serving Solomon, but rather they should be happy
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  Speaker 1: being in Solomon's presence every single day, being able to
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  Speaker 1: hear first hand his wisdom. So she says, blessed be Yahweh,
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  Speaker 1: your God, who delighted in you and set you on
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  Speaker 1: his throne to be king for Yahweh, your God, because
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  Speaker 1: your God loved Israel to establish them forever. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if the Queen of Sheba was a Yahweh
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  Speaker 1: follower before coming and visiting Solomon, but it kind of
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  Speaker 1: sounds like she's a Yahweh follower. Now, because don't forget,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Solomon wasn't just answering her questions. It actually
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  Speaker 1: says in verse four that he showed her Yahweh's house
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  Speaker 1: and also he ascended to Yahweh's house, meaning he probably
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  Speaker 1: did worship right in front of her. He worshiped Yahweh
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  Speaker 1: in front of the Queen of Sheba. We do know
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  Speaker 1: that Solomon was actually quite religious with his worship of Yahweh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, even though Solomon unfortunately kind of went off
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  Speaker 1: the deep end after a while, at the beginning, he
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  Speaker 1: did the daily sacrifices, he participated in the Sabbath Day sacrifices,
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  Speaker 1: in the New Moon celebrations, and all of the Jewish holidays. Like,
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  Speaker 1: he was quite religious in his own right. And so probably,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Queen of Sheba is having an extended
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  Speaker 1: stay with Solomon, and she probably asked how worship was
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  Speaker 1: done in Israel. That might have been some of the
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  Speaker 1: hard questions that she had, maybe they were religious questions.
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  Speaker 1: So she goes and sees Solomon worshiping Yahweh. And now
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  Speaker 1: if she didn't know who Yahweh was before, she certainly
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  Speaker 1: does at this point. And She may have even became
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  Speaker 1: a Yahweh follower just based upon her speech right here.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed be Yahweh, your God, who delighted in you and
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  Speaker 1: set you on his throne to be king for Yahweh,
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  Speaker 1: your God, because your God loved Israel to establish them forever.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore he made you king over them to do justice
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  Speaker 1: and righteousness. Sounds to me like she has a genuine
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  Speaker 1: faith now. Don't know if she did before, but after
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  Speaker 1: this visit to Solomon's Kingdom, she certainly does now. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's what Israel was supposed to be. Israel
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be a light to all the other nations.
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  Speaker 1: God actually said, if you follow me, I am going
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  Speaker 1: to give you so many blessings. Your crops are gonna produce,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have so many children, You're gonna have wealth,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have this and that. I'm gonna just bless
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  Speaker 1: you so so much, and you're gonna be a light
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  Speaker 1: to all these other nations. And when the other nations
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  Speaker 1: see Israel being like blessed immensely with all of these things,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna be like, what God are they worshiping? How
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  Speaker 1: come our gods aren't doing this for us, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and so the other nations would be interested in learning
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  Speaker 1: about Yahweh, and Solomon kind of did that, especially here
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  Speaker 1: in the case of the Queen of Sheba. She realized
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  Speaker 1: that God was true, that God loved Israel because of
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  Speaker 1: the amount of blessings that Israel received. She gave the
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  Speaker 1: king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in
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  Speaker 1: great abundance, and precious stones. There was never before such
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  Speaker 1: spice as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
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  Speaker 1: So the Queen of Sheba gave him one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty talents of gold, so that would be about three
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  Speaker 1: and a half metric tons of gold. Also spices in
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  Speaker 1: great abundance, and precious stones. So she brought all of
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  Speaker 1: these things on these camels, so don't forget, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this caravan that she brought with her was huge in
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  Speaker 1: order to carry that amount of gold and spices and
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  Speaker 1: precious stones. Now, of course, it could possibly be that
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  Speaker 1: instead of the queen bringing all of these things on
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  Speaker 1: this carevan to Solomon, she brought some of these things
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  Speaker 1: and promised Solomon the rest later, like she entered a
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  Speaker 1: trade deal with him or some kind of business deal
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  Speaker 1: with him, and over time the gold, spices, and precious
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  Speaker 1: stones ended up coming Solomon's way. But my personal opinion
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  Speaker 1: is that she likely brought these things with her, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially if it says that she came with a very
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  Speaker 1: great caravan. So that's my guess is that she actually
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  Speaker 1: did hand these things to Solomon personally. Then in verse ten,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of switches tunes a little bit, which is
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  Speaker 1: sort of interesting. The servants of Hrom and the servants
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  Speaker 1: of Solomon, who brought gold from oh Fear, also brought
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  Speaker 1: to algam trees and precious stones. The king used algam
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  Speaker 1: tree wood to make terraces for Yaway's house and for
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  Speaker 1: the King's house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers.
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  Speaker 1: There was none like these seen before in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Judah. It's kind of an interesting little segue that
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  Speaker 1: scripture does right here, where they go from talking about
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  Speaker 1: the gold and the spices and the precious stones that
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  Speaker 1: the queen brought to all of the successes Israel had
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  Speaker 1: on the sea bringing these things from o Fear, And
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  Speaker 1: it very well could be that since the Queen of
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  Speaker 1: Sheba was likely a smart business woman herself, she was
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  Speaker 1: super impressed with all of the things that Solomon was
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  Speaker 1: getting from o fear, you know, these algam trees and
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  Speaker 1: these precious stones. It actually says the algam trees, there
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  Speaker 1: was none like them ever seen before in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Judah. And all of these things contributed with the
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  Speaker 1: positive impression that the Queen of Sheba got with Solomon
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  Speaker 1: and the land of Israel. So it says in verse
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  Speaker 1: twelve that King Solomon gave to the Queen of Sheba
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  Speaker 1: all her desire, whatever she asked, more than that which
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  Speaker 1: she had brought to the king. So even though the
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Sheba was a very rich woman with tons
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  Speaker 1: and tons of gold that she brought along with her,
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  Speaker 1: King Solomon was even more wealthy than she was and
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  Speaker 1: gave her everything she could want. So she went and
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  Speaker 1: returned to her own land, she and her servants. So,
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  Speaker 1: after staying sometime in the Land of Israel, after receiving
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  Speaker 1: all these beautiful gifts from Solomon, she ends up going
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  Speaker 1: back home, making that fourteen hundred mile trip back to
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  Speaker 1: Yemen or Ethiopia or wherever she was from, and it
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  Speaker 1: was a trip worth her while. She learned a lot.
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  Speaker 1: She realized the reports that she heard of Solomon were
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  Speaker 1: the truth, and she also very possibly learned about Yahweh
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  Speaker 1: and became a Yahweh follower because in faith, she chose
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  Speaker 1: to find answers to her questions. Well, faithful listeners, don't
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  Speaker 1: stop asking those questions, because you will receive answers to them.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you all had a great time on today's podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I will see all of you tomorrow for an episode
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  Speaker 1: from First Timothy. Until then, happy listening, and God bless