I spoke in my heart, saying, Behold, I have attained, and acquired wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also I applied my heart to know wisdom and knowledge.

behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have given you an understanding and wise heart: there has not been [anyone] like you before you, and after you there shall not arise one like you.

But I did not believe those that told it to me, until I came and my eyes saw: and behold, the words as they reported to me are not the half [of it]; you have exceeded in goodness all the report which I heard in my land.

And Solomon increased beyond all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom.

And the Lord magnified Solomon over all Israel, and gave him royal glory, such as was not upon any king before him.

And Solomon the son of David was established over his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and increased him exceedingly.

And Solomon exceeded all [other] kings both in riches and wisdom.

And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.