This verse clearly shows how much the wisdom of Solomon was appreciated in later years. After all, this monarch, at his inauguration, asked the Lord, Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people? (1 Kings 3:9).

God’s answer to this was, Because you have asked this…I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you (1 Kings 3:11–12).

King Hezekiah, who reigned over Judah some two hundred years later, therefore encouraged his servants to make the treasure of wisdom of his predecessor available for his own time.

That fits exactly with what we read about Hezekiah in 2 Kings 18:3a: And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. And even we, who live many centuries later, can surely benefit from what was gathered then by the servants of this pious king, from the sayings of Solomon.