1 Kings 10:23
“So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth, for riches and for wisedome.”
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1 Kings 10:23 Context
21¶ And all king Solomons drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forrest of Lebanon were of pure gold, none were of siluer, it was nothing accounted of in the dayes of Solomon. 22For the king had at sea a nauie of Tharshish, with the nauie of Hiram: once in three yeeres came the nauie of Tharshish, bringing golde and siluer, yuorie, and apes, and peacocks. 23So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth, for riches and for wisedome. 24¶ And all the earth sought to Solomon, to heare his wisedom which God had put in his heart. 25And they brought euery man his present, vessels of siluer, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate yeere by yeere.
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So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
- King James Version
So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
- New American Standard Version (1995)