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2 Chronicles 9:22
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20 All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Not one was silver, for this was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
21 For the king’s ships went to aTarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the2 merchant ships came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and3 monkeys.  
22 So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
24 Each man brought his present: articles of silver and gold, garments, aarmor, spices, horses, and mules, at a set rate year by year.  
25 Solomon ahad four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.  
26 aSo he reigned over all the kings bfrom the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.  
27 aThe king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar trees bas abundant as the sycamores which are in the lowland.  
28 aAnd they brought horses to Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.  

Death of Solomon

29 aNow the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of bAhijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of cIddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?  
30 aSolomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.  
Verse Comparison: 2 Chronicles 9:22

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

Amplified® Bible
King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon was the richest and wisest king in the world.

Darby English Version
And king Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

Good News Bible
King Solomon was richer and wiser than any other king in the world.

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

New American Standard Bible
So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

New International Version
King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth.

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

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

Revised Standard Version
Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

Young's Literal Translation
And king Solomon becometh greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom;


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