1 Kings 10:23

New English Translation

King Solomon was wealthier and wiser than any of the kings of the earth.

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I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, the most exalted of the earth’s kings.

I thought to myself, “I have become much wiser than any of my predecessors who ruled over Jerusalem; I have acquired much wisdom and knowledge.”

So I was far wealthier than all my predecessors in Jerusalem, yet I maintained my objectivity:

To me – less than the least of all the saints – this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ