1 Koningen 4:34

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Van alle volken kwam men om de wijsheid van Salomo te horen, en hij ontving geschenken van alle koningen der aarde, die van zijn wijsheid hadden gehoord.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En uit alle volken kwamen er om Salomo's wijsheid te horen, van alle koningen op de aarde, die van zijne wijsheid gehoord hadden.

Staten Vertaling
En van alle volken kwamen er, om de wijsheid van Salomo te horen, van alle koningen der aarde, die van zijn wijsheid gehoord hadden.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 10:1, 2 Chronicles 9:1, 2 Chronicles 9:23, Isaiah 2:2, Zechariah 8:23

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:6 - Surely 2 Chronicles 9:6 - exceedest Matthew 12:42 - hear

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon,

from all kings of the earth,.... Who sent their ambassadors to his court to know the truth of what was reported, and bring them some proofs and specimens, by which they might judge of the truth of the relations that had been told them; which perhaps might seem to them to be beyond all belief:

which had heard of his wisdom; for the fame of it was spread everywhere by merchants and travellers, and such sort of persons, who had been at Jerusalem, and were masters of various anecdotes relating to Solomon; which they industriously spread in the several parts of the world they had dealings in.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 4:34. There came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon — We learn from 1 Kings 10:0, that the queen of Sheba was one of those visitants, and perhaps the most remarkable, as we have the particulars of her visit, but not of the others.

It is astonishing that of a person so renowned for wisdom, so little should be left to prove the truth of a fact of which all the civilized nations of the world have heard, and of which scarcely any man has ever doubted. The people that came from all kings of the earth were probably ambassadors, who came to form and maintain friendship between their sovereigns and the Israelitish king. We cannot understand the place as speaking of people who, either through an idle or laudable curiosity, came to see and converse with Solomon; to give free access to such people would ill comport with the maintenance of his dignity.