Verse 22
2 Chronicles 9:22
Noah Webster Bible
22
And king Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּגְדַּל֙ הַ/מֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה מִ/כֹּ֖ל מַלְכֵ֣י הָ/אָ֑רֶץ לְ/עֹ֖שֶׁר וְ/חָכְמָֽה
English Translation
And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.
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Chapter 9 Context
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And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questi...
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And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not...
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And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,
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And the provisions of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his minister...
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And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in my own land of thy acts, and of thy...
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Yet, I believed not their words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it : and behold, the one half of...
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Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, who stand continually before thee, and hear thy...
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Blessed be the LORD thy God (Elohim), who delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king fo...
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And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and preci...
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And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought al...
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And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, an...
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And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, besides that which s...
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Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty and six talents of...
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Besides that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the c...
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And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to...
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And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield....
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Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
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And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne,...
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And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the...
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And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the f...
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For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: once every three years came the sh...
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And king Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
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And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God (Elohim)...
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And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness...
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And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he...
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And he reigned over all the kings from the river even to the land of the Philistines, and to the bor...
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And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees he made as the sycamore trees that...
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And they brought to Solomon horses from Egypt, and from all lands.
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Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the...
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And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
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And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam...
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