1 Raja-raja 10:7

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

tetapi aku tidak percaya perkataan-perkataan itu sampai aku datang dan melihatnya dengan mataku sendiri; sungguh setengahnyapun belum diberitahukan kepadaku; dalam hal hikmat dan kemakmuran, engkau melebihi kabar yang kudengar.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
tetapi aku tidak percaya perkataan-perkataan itu sampai aku datang dan melihatnya dengan mataku sendiri; sungguh setengahnyapun belum diberitahukan kepadaku; dalam hal hikmat dan kemakmuran, engkau melebihi kabar yang kudengar.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka kabar itupun tiada beta percaya sebelum beta datang ke mari dan mata beta sendiri melihat semuanya, maka sesungguhnya separuhnya juga tiada dikabarkan kepada beta, karena hikmat dan harta benda tuan meliputi segala kabar yang telah beta dengar itu.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the queene of Saba hearing the fame of Solomon (concerning the name of the Lord) came to proue him with harde questions. ² And she came to Hierusalem with a verie great trayne, with camels that bare sweete odours, and gold exceeding much, & precious stones: And she came to Solomon, and communed with him of al that was in her heart. ³ And Solomon declared vnto her all her questions, so that there was not one thing hyd from the king whiche he expounded not vnto her. ⁴ And the queene of Saba considered al Solomons wysdome, & the house that he had buylded, ⁵ And the meate of his table, and the sitting of his seruauntes, the order of his ministers & their apparell, & his drinke, and his burnt sacrifices that he offred in the house of the Lorde: and she was astonied. ⁶ And she sayde vnto the king: It was a true word that I hearde in myne owne land of thy sayinges, & of thy wisdome. ⁷ Howbeit I beleued it not, till I came & sawe it with myne eyes: And beholde, the one halfe was not tolde me: for thy wysdome and prosperitie exceedeth the fame which I hearde of thee. ⁸ Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy seruauntes whiche stand euer before thee, and heare thy wysdome. ⁹ Blessed be the Lorde thy God, whiche loued thee, to set thee on the seate of Israel, because the Lorde loued Israel for euer, & made thee king to do equite and righteousnes. ¹⁰ And she gaue the king sixe score talentes of golde, and of sweete odours exceeding much, and precious stones: There came no more suche aboundaunce of sweete odours, as the queene of Saba gaue to king Solomon.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 2:11
The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:

1 Kings 10:1
And the queene of Saba hearing the fame of Solomon (concerning the name of the Lord) came to proue him with harde questions.

Psalms 72:10
The kyng of Tharsis and of the Iles shall offer presentes: the kynges of Sheba & Seba shall bring giftes.

Isaiah 21:13
The burthen concernyng Arabia. In the wooddes of Arabia shall ye tary all nyght, euen in the streetes of Dedanim.

Ezekiel 27:15
They of Dedan were thy marchaunts, and many iles the marchaundise of thy handes, & brought thee hornes, teeth, and Hebenus, for presentes.

Ezekiel 27:22
The marchauntes of Seba and Rema haue occupied also with thee, in al chiefe spices, in all precious stones and golde, which they brought vnto thy markets.

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.