◄ 1 Kings 10:8 ►
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Good News Translation
How fortunate are your wives! And how fortunate your servants, who are always in your presence and are privileged to hear your wise sayings!

New Revised Standard Version
Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually attend you and hear your wisdom!

Contemporary English Version
Your wives and officials are lucky to be here where they can listen to the wise things you say.

New American Bible
Happy are your servants, happy these ministers of yours, who stand before you always and listen to your wisdom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand before thee always, and hear thy wisdom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand before thee always, and hear thy wisdom.

happy are these

2 Chronicles 9:7,8 Happy are thy men, and happy are thy servants, who stand always before thee, and hear thy wisdom. . . .

Proverbs 3:13,14 The purchasing thereof is better than the merchandise of silver, and her fruit than the chief and purest gold: . . .

Proverbs 8:34 He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.

Proverbs 10:21 The blessing of the Lord maketh men rich: neither shall affliction be joined to them.

Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.

Luke 10:39-42 And she had a sister called Mary. who, sitting also at the Lord's feet, heard his word. . . .

Luke 11:28,31 But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it. . . .

Context
The Queen of Sheba
…7Concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom. And I did not believe them that told me, till I came myself, and saw with my own eyes, and have found that the half hath not been told me: thy wisdom and thy works exceed the fame which I heard. 8Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand before thee always, and hear thy wisdom.9Blessed be the Lord thy God, whom thou hast pleased, and who hath set thee upon the throne of Israel, because the Lord hath loved Israel for ever, and hath appointed thee king, to do judgment and justice.…
Cross References
1 Kings 10:7
Concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom. And I did not believe them that told me, till I came myself, and saw with my own eyes, and have found that the half hath not been told me: thy wisdom and thy works exceed the fame which I heard.

Proverbs 8:34
He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.

Proverbs 22:29
Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before kings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.

Jeremiah 40:10
Behold I dwell in Masphath, that I may answer the commandment of the Chaldeans that are sent to us: but as for you, gather ye the vintage, and the harvest, and the oil, and lay it up in your vessels, and abide in your cities which you hold.

1 Kings 10:7
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