Bible verse
All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
2 Chronicles 9:23 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Chronicles 9.
19 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like this had ever been made for any kingdom.
20 All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
21 For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
22 So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
23 All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
24 Year after year, each visitor would bring his tribute: articles of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
26 He reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.
27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
KJV
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
ASV
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
ERV
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
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