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ECCLESIASTES
OR, THE PREACHER
CHAPTER 2
  8 I gathered me also silver and agold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the bprovinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Footnotes
8a
1 Kgs. 9: 28.
  28 And they came to aOphir, and fetched from thence bgold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
1 Kgs. 10: 10 (10-14).
  10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of agold, 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.
b
1 Kgs. 20: 14.
  14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Even by the ayoung men of the princes of the bprovinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.