2 Chronicles 9:22
2 Chronicles chapter 9 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
Context
v.21For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
v.22This passage
v.23And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 4:30
And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
- Matthew 12:42
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
- Colossians 2:2
that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ,
- 2 Chronicles 1:12
wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee; neither shall there any after thee have the like.
- 1 Kings 10:23
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
- Psalms 89:27
I also will make him my first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.