1 Koningen 10:7

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

maar ik heb geen geloof geslagen aan wat men zeide, totdat ikzelf gekomen ben en met eigen ogen gezien heb; en waarlijk, de helft was mij niet aangezegd: gij hebt in wijsheid en voorspoed de mare die ik gehoord had nog overtroffen.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
en ik heb het niet willen geloven, totdat ik gekomen ben en het met mijne ogen gezien heb; en zie, de helft is mij niet gezegd. Gij hebt meer wijsheid en goed dan het gerucht was, dat ik gehoord heb.

Staten Vertaling
Ik heb die woorden niet geloofd, totdat ik gekomen ben, en mijn ogen dat gezien hebben; en zie, de helft is mij niet aangezegd; gij hebt met wijsheid en goed overtroffen het gerucht, dat ik gehoord heb.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I believed: Isaiah 64:4, Zechariah 9:17, Mark 16:11, John 20:25-29, 1 Corinthians 2:9, 1 John 3:2

thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame: Heb. thou hast added wisdom and goodness to the fame

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 9:6 - the one half Ecclesiastes 1:16 - Lo Ecclesiastes 2:9 - General Matthew 12:42 - hear

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it,.... That is, she did not believe the whole of what was related to her; somewhat of it she credited, and supposed there was something grand and extraordinary in it, or she would never have taken such a journey; but she did not believe that all could be true; she thought things were too much magnified:

and, behold, the half was not told me; of what she now saw and heard:

thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard; the inward endowments of his mind, and the outward magnificence of his court, exceeded the relation of them to her; they were beyond expression, they were so great that reporters could not hyperbolize upon them, nor even come up to them in their account of them, and in which yet men are apt to exceed.