All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
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All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
And all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God placed in his heart.
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All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
All the kings of the earth sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
And all the Kings of the earth sought the presence of Salomon, to heare his wisedome that God had put in his heart.
And all the kings of the earth desired to see the face of Solomon, that they might hear the wisdom which God had given in his heart.
and all the kings of the earth are seeking the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God hath put in his heart,
and all the kings of the earth are seeking the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God has put in his heart,
All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon in order to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
And all the kings of the earth were seeking the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God placed in his heart.
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.
All the kings of the earth wanted to meet Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had placed in his mind.
And all the kings of the earth came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put into his heart.
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 21 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְכֹל֙ מַלְכֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ מְבַקְשִׁ֖ים אֶת פְּנֵ֣י שְׁלֹמֹ֑ה לִשְׁמֹ֨עַ֙ אֶת חָכְמָת֔וֹ אֲשֶׁר נָתַ֥ן הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּלִבּֽוֹ
All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί πᾶς ὁ βασιλεύς ὁ γῆ ζητέω ὁ πρόσωπον σαλωμών ἀκούω ὁ σοφία αὐτός ὅς δίδωμι ὁ θεός ἐν καρδία αὐτός
And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (13 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chokmâh (“wisdom”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Chronicles 9:23 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.