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1 Kings 5:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Moreover, God gave Solomon wisdom, exceptional understanding, and knowledge, as vast as the sand on the seashore.

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I now do as you request. I give you a heart so wise and discerning that there has never been anyone like you until now, nor after you will there be anyone to equal you.

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sands by the sea; they ate and drank and rejoiced.

Solomon’s wisdom surpassed that of all the peoples of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

For the chariot horses and draft animals also, each brought his quota of barley and straw to the required place. Solomon’s Renown.

To this fleet Hiram sent his own servants, expert sailors, with the servants of Solomon.

The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as numerous as the sycamores of the Shephelah.

Thereupon Solomon took a census of all the alien men resident in the land of Israel (following the census David his father had taken of them); they were found to number one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

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

Then they hired stonecutters and carpenters, and sent food and drink and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians that they might ship cedar trees from the Lebanon to the port of Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had authorized.

But there is a spirit in human beings, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.

Though I said to myself, “See, I have greatly increased my wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem, and my mind has broad experience of wisdom and knowledge,”

Judah and the land of Israel trafficked with you: Minnith wheat, grain, honey, oil, and balm they gave you as merchandise.

He had long been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, who now came to him in a body. After winning over Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they sued for peace because their country was supplied with food from the king’s territory.

Ah, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that fine hill country, and the Lebanon!”




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