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1 Kings 5:9

Tree of Life Version

God gave Solomon wisdom and discernment in great measure, and a breadth of understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore.

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Judah and the land of Israel were your customers; they traded for your wares with wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil and balm.

So they gave money to the stone-masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians to bring cedar trees by sea from Lebanon to Joppa, as authorized by King Cyrus of Persia.

Now it happened that Herod was furious with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him, united. Having won over Blastus, the king’s personal aide, they began asking for peace—because their country was supplied with food from the king’s country.

Solomon counted all the foreign men in the land of Israel, like the census that his father David had taken, and 153,600 were found.

The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars as plentiful as sycamores in the foothills.

Please! Let me cross over and see the good land across the Jordan—that good hill country and the Lebanon.’

They also brought barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where it should be, each according to his charge.

Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the sons of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Hiram sent his servants with the fleet—sailors who knew the sea—along with Solomon’s servants.

behold, I have done according to your words. I have given you a wise and discerning mind, so that there has been none like you before you, nor shall anyone like you arise after you.

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea in abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

But there is a spirit in people, the breath of Shaddai that gives them understanding.

I spoke with my heart saying: “I have grown rich and increased in wisdom more than any who were before me over Jerusalem. Indeed, my heart has experienced much wisdom and knowledge.”




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