Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
The children
The wisdom of egypt
General references
Bible References
The children
Genesis 25:6
And unto the sons of his concubines he gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son - while he yet lived - eastward, unto the east country.
Job 1:3
His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household: so that he was one of the most principal men among all them of the east country.
Daniel 1:20
Therefore stood they before the king, which in all wisdom and matters of understanding that he enquired of them, found them ten times better than all the soothsayers and charmers that were in all his realm.
Daniel 4:7
So there came the soothsayers, charmers, Chaldeans and conjurers of devils: to whom I told the dream. But what it betokened, they could not show me:
Daniel 5:11
For why? There is a man in thy kingdom, that hath the spirit of the holy gods within him, as it was seen in thy father's days. He hath understanding and wisdom like the gods; Yea, the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father made this man chief of the soothsayers, charmers, Chaldeans and devil conjurers:
Matthew 2:1
When Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Jewry in the time of Herod the king, Behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem,
The wisdom of egypt
Isaiah 19:11
But ye foolish princes of Zoan, ye wise counselors of Pharaoh, whose wit is turned to foolishness: How say ye unto Pharaoh, "I am come of wise people;
Acts 7:22
And Moses was learned in all manner wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in deeds and in words.
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind.