1 Kings 10:23

King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

22The king had a ◄fleet/large number► of ships that sailed with the ships that King Hiram owned. Every three years the ships returned from the places to which they had sailed, bringing gold, silver, ivory, monkeys, and baboons (OR, peacocks).

24People from all over the world wanted to come and listen to the wise things that Solomon said, things that God had put into his mind.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:12So, I will certainly do what you requested. I will enable you to be very wise [DOU]. The result will be that no one who has lived before you or who will live after you will be as wise as you are.

2 Chronicles 9:22King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king on the earth.

Ecclesiastes 2:9So, I became greater than anyone else who had ever lived in Jerusalem, and I was very wise.

Colossians 1:18And God’s Son ranks above everything, because it is his Son who rules over his people [MET] as a person’s head controls his physical body, because his Son causes his people to live spiritually. God’s Son is the first one who became alive again, in order that he should become more important than anything and everyone.

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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