1 Kings 10:23

So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

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In The King James Version

So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.

In Context

22For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram. Once every three years the navy of Tarshish came, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

24And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:12behold, I have done according to thy word. Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there has been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like thee.

2 Chronicles 9:22So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:9So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.

Colossians 1:18And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might become preeminent in all things.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 10:15-29

Solomon's Wealth. ( b. c. 990.) 14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold, 15 Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country. 16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. 17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put… Read the whole commentary →

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