1 Kings 10:7

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Summary

Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

I believed

General references

Ecclesiastes 2:9

Bible References

I believed

The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.

For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.

And they, when it came to their ears that he was living, and had been seen by her, had no belief in it.

So the other disciples said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, If I do not see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails, and if I do not put my hand into his side, I will never have belief.

But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.

My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

General references

And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.