1 Kings 10

1 Kings 10:5

There was no more spirit in her.

She was so astonished at the exceeding wisdom of Solomon, that she was even transported from herself with admiration.

1 Kings 10:11

Great plenty of alung trees.

Great plenty of the trees of Heben wood; which, for the solidness and shining brightness, were fit for the use and ornament of his building, and for instruments.

1 Kings 10:28

Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of the land.

Thus Jehu destroyed all the idols of Baal, and rooted out all the false gods from Israel.

1 Kings 10:29

And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

And Solomon, through the favour of his father-in-law, the king of Egypt, had the benefit of all the trade of Egypt, for chariots and horses (wherewith that country had wont to furnish the neighbour regions) to pass through the hands of his merchants, to his behoof; so as, if the kings of the Hittites or of Syria would have either chariots or horses, they must obtain them by the means of Solomon’s merchants, at a set rate; their chariots must cost them six hundred shekels, their horses a hundred and fifty.

Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from them, the golden calves that were in Dan, and that were in Bethel.

But that part of idolatry, which consisted in the false worship of the true God, brought in by Jeroboam in those golden calves of Dan and Bethel, Jehu did not at all oppose; but countenanced and practised it rather.