King James Version (KJV) Authorized Version 1611
Read Full Chapter (1 Kings 10) 1 Kings 10:23 KJV
"So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom."
1 Kings Chapter 10, Verse 23
1 Kings 10:23 in Context (Verses 20–26 KJV)
20
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.*
21
¶ And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.*
22
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.*
23
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
24
¶ And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.*
25
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
26
¶ And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.