1 Raja-raja 4:30

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

sehingga hikmat Salomo melebihi hikmat segala bani Timur dan melebihi segala hikmat orang Mesir.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
sehingga hikmat Salomo melebihi hikmat segala bani Timur dan melebihi segala hikmat orang Mesir.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka akal budi raja Sulaiman itu terlebih besar dari pada akal budi segala bani Masyrik dan dari pada akal budi segala orang Mesir.

Contextual Overview

²⁹ And God gaue Solomon wysdome and vnderstanding exceeding much, and a large heart, euen as the sand that is on the sea shore. ³⁰ And Solomons wysdome excelled the wysedome of all the children of the east countrey, and al the wisdome of Egypt. ³¹ For he was wiser then al men, yea then Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda the sonnes of Mahol: And his name was spoken of throughout all nations on euery syde. ³² And Solomon spake three thousande prouerbes: And his songes were a thousande and fiue. ³³ And he spake of trees, euen from the Cedar tree that groweth in Libanon, vnto the Isope that springeth out of the wall: He spake also of beastes, of foules, of wormes, and of fishes. ³⁴ And there came of all nations to heare the wysdome of Solomon, and from all kinges of the earth, which had heard of his wysdome.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the children: Genesis 25:6, Job 1:3, Daniel 1:20, Daniel 4:7, Daniel 5:11, Daniel 5:12, Matthew 2:1, Matthew 2:16

the wisdom of Egypt: Isaiah 19:11, Isaiah 19:12, Acts 7:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 29:1 - came Judges 6:3 - children Judges 7:12 - the Midianites 2 Chronicles 9:22 - passed all the kings Job 1:8 - none Ecclesiastes 1:14 - General Ecclesiastes 1:16 - Lo Ezekiel 25:4 - men

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east,.... The Arabians, and Persians, famous for wisdom, and who lay to the east of the land of Judea; whose wisdom lay in the knowledge of the stars, in divination by birds, and soothsaying m:

and all the wisdom of Egypt; which it was eminent for in the times of Moses, and in which he was learned and well-skilled, Acts 7:22; and hence in later times the philosophers of the Gentiles travelled to get knowledge, as Pherecydes, Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Plato, and others to Egypt, said to be the mother of arts and sciences n.

m Midrash Kohelet. fol. 76. 3. n Macrob. in Som. Scip. c. 19. 21. & Saturnal l. 1. c. 15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Children of the east country - Rather, “of the East” - the Beni Kedem - a distinct tribe, who occupied both sides of the Euphrates along its middle course (marginal reference). They were mostly nomads, who dwelt in tents Jeremiah 49:28-29. Job belonged to them Job 1:3, as did probably his three friends; and, perhaps, Balsam Numbers 23:7. They must have been either Arabs or Aramaeans. We may see in the Book of Job the character of their “wisdom.” Like Solomon’s, it was chiefly gnomic but included some knowledge of natural history. The “wisdom of Egypt” was of a different kind. It included magic Genesis 41:8; Exodus 7:11, geometry, medicine, astronomy, architecture, and a dreamy mystic philosophy, of which metempsychosis was the main principle. It is not probable that Solomon was, like Moses (marginal reference), deeply versed in Egyptian science. The writer only means to say that his wisdom was truer and more real than all the much-praised wisdom of Egypt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 4:30. The children of the east country — That is the Chaldeans, Persians, and Arabians, who, with the Egyptians, were famed for wisdom and knowledge through all the world.