I'll also give you what you didn't ask for. You'll be rich and respected as long as you live, and you'll be greater than any other king.
Solomon received almost twenty-three thousand kilogrammes of gold a year.
The LORD made Solomon a great king, and the whole nation was amazed at how famous he was. In fact, no other king of Israel was as great as Solomon.
Solomon was the richest and wisest king in the world.
God dearly loved King Solomon of Israel and made him the greatest king on earth, but Solomon's foreign wives led him into sin.
In her right hand Wisdom holds a long life, and in her left hand are wealth and honour.
It will be like wearing a glorious crown of beautiful flowers.”
God may give you everything you want—money, property, and wealth. Then God doesn't let you enjoy it, and someone you don't even know gets it all. That's senseless and terribly unfair!
But more than anything else, put God's work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well.
God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won't he freely give us everything else?
I pray that Christ Jesus and the church will for ever bring praise to God. His power at work in us can do far more than we dare ask or imagine. Amen.