2 Chronicles 9:22

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Summary

2 Chronicles 9:22

And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

Passed all the kings

Colossians 2:2

General references

Ecclesiastes 2:9

Bible References

Passed all the kings

wisdom and knowledge have been granted you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings who were before you has possessed nor will those who will come after you.”

behold, I have done as you asked. I have given you a wise and discerning heart (mind), so that no one before you was your equal, nor shall anyone equal to you arise after you.

Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.

“I will also make him My firstborn (preeminent),
The highest of the kings of the earth.

The Queen of the South (Sheba) will stand up [as a witness] at the judgment against this generation, and will condemn it because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and now, something greater than Solomon is here.

[For my hope is] that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in [unselfish] love, so that they may have all the riches that come from the full assurance of understanding [the joy of salvation], resulting in a true [and more intimate] knowledge of the mystery of God, that is, Christ,

General references

So I became great and excelled more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.