2 Chronicles 9:22

Literal Standard Version

And King Solomon becomes greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the world in riches and wisdom.

Hebrew Names Version
So king Shlomo exceeded all the kings of the eretz in riches and wisdom.

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

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

New Century Version
King Solomon had more riches and wisdom than all the other kings on earth.

New English Translation
King Solomon was wealthier and wiser than any of the kings of the earth.

Amplified Bible
So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.

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

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
So King Salomon excelled all the Kings of the earth in riches and wisedome.

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

Berean Standard Bible
So 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.

Complete Jewish Bible
So King Shlomo surpassed all the kings on earth in both wealth and wisdom.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
King Solomon became greater in riches and wisdom than any other king on earth.

George Lamsa Translation
Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

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

Lexham English Bible
Thus King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.

Literal Translation
And King Solomon increased more than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus was kynge Salomon greater then all the kynges vpon earth, in riches and wisdome.

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

Bible in Basic English
And King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and in wisdom.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And king Solomon passed all the kinges of the earth, in richesse & wysedome.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

King James Version (1611)
And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisedome.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Solomon exceeded all other kings both in riches and wisdom.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor kyng Salomon was magnyfied ouer alle kyngis of erthe for richessis and glorie.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And king Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

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

New Living Translation
So King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king on earth.

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

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And so King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth, - as to riches, and wisdom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon was magnified above all the kings of the earth for riches and glory.

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;

THE MESSAGE
King Solomon was richer and wiser than all the kings of the earth—he surpassed them all. Kings came from all over the world to be with Solomon and get in on the wisdom God had given him. Everyone who came brought gifts—artifacts of gold and silver, fashionable robes and gowns, the latest in weapons, exotic spices, horses, and mules—parades of visitors, year after year.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

Contextual Overview

¹³And the weight of the gold that is coming to Solomon in one year is six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, ¹⁴apart from [what] the tourists and the merchants are bringing in; and all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of the land, are bringing in gold and silver to Solomon. ¹⁵And King Solomon makes two hundred bucklers of alloyed gold—he causes six hundred [shekels] of alloyed gold to go up on the one buckler; ¹⁶and three hundred shields of alloyed gold—he causes three hundred [shekels] of gold to go up on the one shield, and the king puts them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. ¹⁷And the king makes a great throne of ivory, and overlays it with pure gold; ¹⁸and six steps [are] to the throne, and a footstool of gold, [and] they are fastened to the throne; and [places for] hands [are] on this [side] and on that [side] on the place of the sitting, and two lions are standing near the hands, ¹⁹and twelve lions are standing there on the six steps on this [side] and on that [side]: it has not been made so for any kingdom. ²⁰And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon [are] of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon [are] of refined gold—silver is not reckoned in the days of Solomon for anything; ²¹for ships of the king are going to Tarshish with servants of Huram: once in three years the ships of Tarshish come carrying gold, and silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks [[or monkeys]]. ²²And King Solomon becomes greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

passed all the kings: 2 Chronicles 1:12, 1 Kings 3:12, 1 Kings 3:13, 1 Kings 4:30, 1 Kings 4:31, 1 Kings 10:23, 1 Kings 10:24, Psalms 89:27, Matthew 12:42, Colossians 2:2, Colossians 2:3

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 13:26 - yet among Ecclesiastes 1:16 - Lo Ecclesiastes 2:9 - General Acts 7:22 - was learned

Cross-References

Genesis 9:12
And God says, "This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that [is] with you, to continuous generations;

Genesis 9:13
My bow I have given in the cloud, and it has been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;

Genesis 9:15
and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters no longer become a flood to destroy all flesh;

Genesis 9:16
and the bow has been in the cloud, and I have seen it—to remember the perpetual covenant between God and every living creature among all flesh which [is] on the earth."

Genesis 9:19
These three [are] sons of Noah, and from these has all the earth been overspread.

Genesis 9:20
And Noah remains a man of the ground, and plants a vineyard,

Genesis 9:21
and drinks of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovers himself in the midst of the tent.

Genesis 9:25
and says: "Cursed [is] Canaan, || Servant of servants he is to his brothers."

Genesis 10:6
And sons of Ham [are] Cush, and Mitzraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

1 Chronicles 1:8
Sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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