Ecclesiastes 1:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

Communed

Daniel 4:30

Lo

2 Chronicles 9:22

Great experience of

Hebrews 5:14

General references

Ecclesiastes 2:9

Bible References

Communed

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, by not receiving from his hands what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”

Tremble,

and do not sin;

Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

I will remember my song in the night;
I will meditate with my heart,
And my spirit ponders:

Yet it does not so intend,
Nor does it plan so in its heart,
But rather it is its purpose to destroy
And to cut off many nations.

Who says, ‘I will build myself a roomy house
With spacious upper rooms,
And cut out its windows,

Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.’

‘Thus says the Lord God, “It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan,

The king reflected and said, ‘Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?’

Lo

Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me.

behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you.

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

Nevertheless I did not believe the reports, until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. You exceed in wisdom and prosperity the report which I heard.

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this great people of Yours?”

Then Huram continued, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who will build a house for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.

So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

Great experience of

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

General references

Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me.