1 Kings 10:23

And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth 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 Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and monkeys and peacocks.

24And from all over the earth they came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:12I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.

2 Chronicles 9:22And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:9And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.

Colossians 1:18And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.

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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