1 Kings 10:8

Blessed are your wives, blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually, who hear all your wisdom.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7But I believed not them that told me, until I came and my eyes saw: and, behold, the words as they reported to me are not the half: you have + 10:7 Gr. added good things to them. exceeded in goodness all the report which I heard in my land.

9Blessed be the Lord your God, who has taken pleasure in you, to set you upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord loved Israel to establish him for ever; and he has made you king over them, to execute judgment with justice, and in their causes.

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Cross References

1 Kings 12:6And the king referred the matter to the elders, who stood before Solomon his father while he was yet living, saying, How do you⌃ advise + 12:6 Gr. and I should answer a word, etc. that I should answer this people?

Proverbs 3:13Blessed is the man who has found wisdom, and the mortal who knows prudence.

Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous know sublime truths: but the foolish die in lack.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 10:2-14

Visit of the Queen of Sheba. ( b. c. 990.) 1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord , she came to prove him with hard questions. 2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not. 4 And when the queen… Read the whole commentary →

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