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2 Chronicles 9:22

in 2 Chronicles 9

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 9

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

surpassed all the kings of the earth

on 2 Chronicles 9:22-25

Solomon “surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom,” and the kings of the earth seek an audience. Kings tells the same scene at 1 Kings 10:23-25. Verse 25 counts “4,000 stalls for horses and chariots” and 12,000 horses.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּגְדַּל֙and he became great

    vaiyigdalH1431 →117 times

  • הַמֶּ֣לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • שְׁלֹמֹ֔הSolomon

    shelomohH8010 →291 times

  • מִכֹּ֖לmore than all

    mikolH3605 →5413 times

  • מַלְכֵ֣י[the] kings of

    malkheiH4428 →2525 times

  • הָאָ֑רֶץthe earth

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • לְעֹ֖שֶׁרto wealth

    leosherH6239 →37 times

  • וְחָכְמָֽה׃and wisdom

    vechakhemahH2451 →153 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 1:12

    therefore wisdom and knowledge have been granted to you. And I will also give you riches and wealth and honor unlike anything given to the kings before you or after you.”

    it leads to

    • James 1:5

      Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

    • Matthew 6:33

      But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

    • Ephesians 3:20

      Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,

    • 1 Chronicles 29:25

      The LORD highly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him royal majesty such as had not been bestowed on any king in Israel before him.

  • Through

    Psalms 89:27

    I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

    it leads to

    • Colossians 1:18

      And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.

    • Colossians 1:15

      The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

  • Through

    Matthew 12:42

    The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 10:1–13

      Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.

    • 2 Chronicles 9:1–12

      Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon, she came to test him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in…

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.