How blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!
Parallel translations
- WEB Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.
- KJV Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
- NKJV Happy are your men and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!
- NASB How blessed are your men, how blessed are these servants of yours, who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom!
- NLT How happy your people must be! What a privilege for your officials to stand here day after day, listening to your wisdom!
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Quick answer
The queen calls Solomon's men happy for continually hearing his wisdom. It highlights the blessing of nearness to true wisdom.
Overview
She envies those privileged to stand before Solomon and learn from him daily. The verse celebrates the benefit of living in the presence of wisdom. Believers enjoy a greater privilege still, sitting under the words of Christ, the wisdom of God.
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Cross-references · 11
- 1 Kgs 10:8How blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!
- Prov 8:34Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
- Deut 33:9He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.
- Prov 3:3Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Ps 84:10–12For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
- Prov 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.
- Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
- Prov 3:14for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.
- Luke 10:39–42She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to His message.
- Prov 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
- Ps 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
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