Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. Sermons
I. THE MATERIAL CREATION. What wholly unanticipated wonders have been disclosed by the advance of human science! The men of remote generations had not the faintest notion of the powers we have discovered to reside in the material universe. And what still undiscovered forces await our inquiry and investigation as we patiently plod on in the paths of knowledge! Surely one-half hath not been told us or imagined by us. II. OUR HUMAN EXPERIENCE. We have our expectation concerning the life that is before us; but it is very little like the reality, as experience will prove. Many things we may picture to ourselves which will find no fulfilment; but many other things there are, of which we have no discernment, that will find their place on the page of our biography. Of these some are unexpected sorrows - losses, disappointments, separations, struggles - of which we can form no idea; others are unanticipated blessings-comforts, relationships, joys, triumphs - exceeding and excelling our hopes. We do not anticipate, for good or evil, one-half of the bright or dark reality. III. THE GOSPEL OF THE GRACE OF GOD. "Eye had not seen, nor ear heard, nor had it entered into man's heart to conceive" one-half of "what God had prepared for them that love him." No man could or did imagine that such wealth of grace and goodness as that which the gospel of Christ contains would be brought to us by the Anointed of God, would be purchased for us by a Saviour's sacrifice, would be pressed upon us by a heavenly Father's urgent and persistent love. IV. THE GLORY WHICH IS TO BE REVEALED. In that "land of great distances' we are one day to traverse, in that home of love in which we are soon to dwell, what unimaginable good is in reserve! What joy and what glory; what rest and what activity; what realization and what hope; what knowledge of God and what pursuit of that knowledge; what royalty and what service; what purity and what progress; what unanticipated and inconceivable blessedness to satisfy but not satiate the soul! - C.
And of spices great abundance. Solomon had a great reputation for the conundrums and riddles that he made and guessed. The Solomonic navy visited all the world, and the sailors, of course, talked about the wealth of their king, and about the riddles and enigmas that he made and solved; and the news spread until Queen Balkis, away off south, heard of it, and sent messengers with a few riddles that she would like to have Solomon solve, and a few puzzles that she would like to have him find out: Queen Balkis was so pleased with the acuteness of Solomon, that she said: "I'll just go and see him for myself." Yonder it comes — the cavalcade — horses and dromedaries, chariots and charioteers, jingling harness and clattering hoofs, and blazing shields, and flying ensigns, and clapping cymbals. The place is saturated with the perfume. She brings cinnamon, and saffron, and calamus, and frankincense, and all manner of sweet spices. I shall take the responsibility of saying that all the spikenard and cassia and frankincense which the Queen of Sheba brought to Solomon is mightily suggestive of the sweet spices of our holy religion.I. MEN REQUIRE MORE OF THE SPICERY OF RELIGION TO BRIGHTEN THEIR LIFE AND SWEETEN THEIR DISPOSITION AMID THE CAPES AND DUTIES OF LIFE. II. WE NEED TO PUT MORE SPICE AND ENLIVEMENT IN OUR RELIGIOUS TEACHING. III. WE WANT MORE LIFE AND SLICE IN OUR CHRISTIAN WORK. IV. WE NEED MORE SPICE AND ENLIVENMENT IN OUR CHURCH MUSIC. V. THE RELIGION OF CHRIST IS A PRESENT AND EVERLASTING REDOLENCE THAT COUNTERACTS ALL TROUBLE. It lifted Samuel Rutherford into a revelry of spiritual delight while he was in physical agonies. It helped Richard Baxter until, in the midst of such a complication of diseases as perhaps no other man ever suffered, he wrote "The Saint' Everlasting Rest." And it poured light on John Bunyans dungeon — the light of the shining gate of the shining city. Oh, you sin-parched and you trouble-pounded, here is comfort, here is satisfaction. I cannot tell you what the Lord offers you hereafter so well as I can tell you now. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." May God grant that through your own practical experience you may find that religion's ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are paths of peace — that it is perfume now and perfume for ever. (T. De Witt Talmage.) (T. De Witt Talmage.) (T. De Witt Talmage.) People Ahijah, David, Huram, Iddo, Jeroboam, Nathan, Nebat, Nehemiah, Ophir, Rehoboam, Solomon, TarshishPlaces Arabia, Egypt, Euphrates River, House of the Forest of Lebanon, Jerusalem, Ophir, Sheba, Shephelah, TarshishTopics Abundance, Amount, Giveth, Gold, Hundred, Jewels, Large, Precious, Quantities, Quantity, Queen, Sheba, Solomon, Spice, Spices, Stone, Stones, Store, Talents, TwentyOutline 1. The queen of sheba admires the wisdom of Solomon13. Solomon's revenue in gold 15. His targets and shields 17. The throne of ivory 20. His vessels 23. His presents 25. His chariots and horse 26. His tributes 29. His reign and death Dictionary of Bible Themes 2 Chronicles 9:9 4333 gold Library The Great Gain of Godliness'And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. 26. And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. 27. And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing. 28. Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Chronicles Links 2 Chronicles 9:9 NIV2 Chronicles 9:9 NLT 2 Chronicles 9:9 ESV 2 Chronicles 9:9 NASB 2 Chronicles 9:9 KJV 2 Chronicles 9:9 Bible Apps 2 Chronicles 9:9 Parallel 2 Chronicles 9:9 Biblia Paralela 2 Chronicles 9:9 Chinese Bible 2 Chronicles 9:9 French Bible 2 Chronicles 9:9 German Bible 2 Chronicles 9:9 Commentaries Bible Hub |