2 Chronicles 9:7

How happy your people must be! How happy those who work for you, who stand here every day listening to your wisdom!

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In The King James Version

Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

In Context

6But I didn't believe what they told me until I came and saw with my own eyes. In fact, I wasn't told the half of it—the extent of your wisdom far exceeds what I heard!

8Praise the Lord your God who is so pleased with you, who placed you on his throne as king to rule on his behalf. Because of the love of your God for Israel he has made them secure forever, and he has made you king over them to do what is fair and right.”

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:8How happy your people must be! How happy those who work for you, who stand here every day listening to your wisdom!

Psalms 84:10One day in your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else. I'd rather stand as a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live comfortably in the homes of the wicked.

Proverbs 3:14for wisdom is worth more than silver, and pays better than gold.

Proverbs 10:21Advice from good people helps feed many others, but stupid people die because they have no sense.

Luke 10:39She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 9:2-13

The Queen of Sheba Visit Solomon. ( b. c. 992.) 1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not. 3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon,… Read the whole commentary →

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