1 Paralipomenon 10:7

Nova Vulgata

Et non credebam narrantibus mihi, donec ipsa veni et vidi oculis meis et probavi quod media pars mihi nuntiata non fuerit; maior est sapientia et bona tua quam rumor, quem audivi.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Quod cum audisset David, misit Joab et omnem exercitum bellatorum.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
super sermonibus tuis, et super sapientia tua: et non credebam narrantibus mihi, donec ipsa veni, et vidi oculis meis, et probavi quod media pars mihi nuntiata non fuerit: major est sapientia et opera tua, quam rumor quem audivi.

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.