1 Kings 10:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“How blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!”
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“How blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, that stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“O the happiness of thy men, O the happiness of thy servants--these--who are standing before thee continually, who are hearing thy wisdom!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Kings 10:8 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 12:6Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
- 2 Chronicles 9:7How blessed are your men! How blessed are these servants of yours who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!
- Proverbs 3:13Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,
- Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
- Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment.
- Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
- Luke 10:39She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to His message.
- Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
- Luke 11:31The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
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