2 Chronicles 9:7

How blessed are your people, and how blessed are your servants who constantly stand before you, because they hear your wisdom. + 9:7 Some versions have, How blessed are your wives , assuming that the text should read as in 1 Kings 10:8.

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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

6I did not believe what I heard until I came here, and now my eyes have seen it. Not half was told me about your wisdom and wealth! You have exceeded the fame that I heard about.

8Blessed be Yahweh your God, who has taken pleasure in you, who placed you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God. Because your God loved Israel, in order to establish them forever, he had made you king over them, for you to do justice and righteousness!”

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:8How blessed are your wives, and how blessed are your servants who constantly stand before you, because they hear your wisdom. + 10:8 Some versions read How blessed are your men . Important ancient translations, however, have How blessed are your wives . Many think it is probable that women was misread as men , because the Hebrew words are very similar.

Psalms 84:10For one day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. 1 I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, 1 than to live within the tents of the wicked. 1

Proverbs 3:14What you gain from wisdom is better than what silver will give in return 1 and its profit is better than gold. 1

Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous person nourish many, 1 but fools die because of their lack of sense. 1

Luke 10:39She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and heard his word.

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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