How happy your people must be! What a privilege for your officials to stand here day after day, listening to 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.
- BSB How blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your 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!
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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 10:8Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
- Prov 8:34Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
- Deut 33:9He said of his father, and of his mother, ‘I have not seen him.’ He didn’t acknowledge his brothers, nor did he know his own children; for they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.
- Prov 3:3Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Ps 84:10–12For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
- Prov 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
- Luke 11:28But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
- Prov 3:14For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
- Luke 10:39–42She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.
- Prov 13:20One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
- Ps 27:4One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
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