1 Kings 10:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When the queen had seen all Solomon's wisdom Had fully discovered the wonderful variety of knowledge wherewith he was endowed. And the house that he had built Or, the houses, the temple and the king's house, in both which there were evidences of singular wisdom. The sitting of his servants The order and manner in which his courtiers, or other subjects, (who all were his servants in a general sense,) sat down at meals, at several tables in his court. The attendance of his ministers Who waited on him at his table, in his chamber, and in his court; as also when he went abroad to the temple or other places. And their apparel The costliness, and especially the agreeableness of it to their several places and offices. The ascent by which, &c. The state, pomp, and solemnity with which he went up to the house of the Lord. But the ancients, and some others, translate the words thus: and the burnt-offerings which he offered up in the house of the Lord; under which, as the chief, all other sacrifices are understood. When she saw the manner of his offering sacrifices to the Lord, which doubtless she would not neglect to see, and in the ordering of which she might discern many characters of excellent wisdom, especially when she had so excellent an interpreter as Solomon was, to inform her of the reasons of all the circumstances of that service; there was no more spirit in her She was perfectly astonished, and could scarcely determine whether she really saw these things, or whether it was only a pleasant dream. Or it may be rendered, There was no more pride, or high-mindedness in her; that is, she was humbled under a consciousness that the riches of her own dominions, and the magnificence in which she herself lived, were not comparable to those of Solomon.