1 Kings 10:23
So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
In Context
24All the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:12behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.
2 Chronicles 9:22So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 2:9So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
Colossians 1:18He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
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 →