1. 1 Kings 10:6–7 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does it mean that Solomon exceeded the queen of Sheba’s wealth?

1 Kings 10:6–7 (ESV)

6 And she said to the king, “The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,

The queen of Sheba gave the riches of the world, but Solomon’s riches exceeded her wildest expectations. She cried, “Behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard” (1 Kings 10:7). Notice that she first speaks of wisdom and then mentions prosperity. That is important. The wealth of God is more than the wealth of the world, because the wisdom of God is more than the wisdom of the world.