1 Kings 4:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Common English Bible

³⁰ Solomon’s wisdom was greater than all the famous Easterners, greater even than all the wisdom of Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the East, and of the Egyptians.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals and of the Egyptians,

1 Kings 4:30 Cross References

Genesis 25:6

But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, while he was still living, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.

Genesis 29:1

Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

1 Kings 10:23

Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

Job 1:3

He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

Ecclesiastes 1:16

I said to myself, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

Ezekiel 25:4

therefore I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession. They shall set their encampments among you and pitch their tents in your midst; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

Daniel 1:20

In every matter of wisdom and understanding concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.

Daniel 4:7

Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not tell me its interpretation.

Matthew 2:1

In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, magi from the east came to Jerusalem,

Matthew 2:16

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the magi.

Acts 7:22

So Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.

Judges 6:33

Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came together, and they crossed over and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.