1 Kings 4:34

Contextual Overview

²⁹God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore. ²⁹ God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore. ²⁹And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of understanding in his heart, like the sand that is on the seashore. ²⁹ Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore. ²⁹ And God gaue Solomon wysdome and vnderstanding exceeding much, and a large heart, euen as the sand that is on the sea shore. ²⁹ And God gave Solomon exceeding great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the lip of the sea. ²⁹ God made Solomon very wise. Solomon could understand more than you can imagine. ²⁹ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and largeness of mind like the sand on the seashore, ²⁹ God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore. ²⁹ And God gaue Solomon wisdome, and vnderstanding, exceeding much, and largenesse of heart, euen as the sand that is on the sea shoare.

Bible Verse Review
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1 Kings 10:1, 2 Chronicles 9:1, 2 Chronicles 9:23, Isaiah 2:2, Zechariah 8:23

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:6 - Surely 2 Chronicles 9:6 - exceedest Matthew 12:42 - hear

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon,

from all kings of the earth,.... Who sent their ambassadors to his court to know the truth of what was reported, and bring them some proofs and specimens, by which they might judge of the truth of the relations that had been told them; which perhaps might seem to them to be beyond all belief:

which had heard of his wisdom; for the fame of it was spread everywhere by merchants and travellers, and such sort of persons, who had been at Jerusalem, and were masters of various anecdotes relating to Solomon; which they industriously spread in the several parts of the world they had dealings in.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 4:34. There came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon — We learn from 1 Kings 10:0, that the queen of Sheba was one of those visitants, and perhaps the most remarkable, as we have the particulars of her visit, but not of the others.

It is astonishing that of a person so renowned for wisdom, so little should be left to prove the truth of a fact of which all the civilized nations of the world have heard, and of which scarcely any man has ever doubted. The people that came from all kings of the earth were probably ambassadors, who came to form and maintain friendship between their sovereigns and the Israelitish king. We cannot understand the place as speaking of people who, either through an idle or laudable curiosity, came to see and converse with Solomon; to give free access to such people would ill comport with the maintenance of his dignity.