And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
Ver. 10. And she gave the king, &c.] See on 1Ki 10:2 Psalms 72:10, where it was foretold.
And of spices very great store.] These were of old highly accounted of. 2Ki 20:13 Galen a writeth that in his time cinnamon was very rare and hard to be found, except in the storehouses of great princes.
a Antidot., lib. i.