The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:
The verse belongs to the first eleven chapters of 1 Kings, which contain the life of Solomon. Solomon succeeded David, who had succeeded Saul, and his reign came before the division of the kingdom under Rehoboam and before the continued history of Israel and Judah found in the remainder of 1 Kings and in 2 Kings. It is part of the account of Solomon's reign in which his greatness as well as his wisdom is shown by placing high officers up and down the country for administration.
The chapter shows the utmost height of earthly grandeur and triumph to which God exalted Solomon and Israel. Under that administration the people are numerous and contented and his fame spreads into neighboring lands and was in all nations round about. God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart even as the sand on the seashore, making him wiser than all men. He spoke 3000 proverbs and his songs were 1005, he spoke of trees from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springs out of the wall, and he had knowledge of all beasts and fowls and creeping things and fishes and was able to discourse respecting them. The height of prosperity shown proves that nothing permanently good can be made out of poor human nature by the utmost grant of earthly prosperity alone without schooling in adversity and affliction.
The verse belongs to the first eleven chapters of 1 Kings, which contain the life of Solomon. Solomon succeeded David, who had succeeded Saul, and his reign came before the division of the kingdom under Rehoboam and before the continued history of Israel and Judah found in the remainder of 1 Kings and in 2 Kings. It is part of the account of Solomon's reign in which his greatness as well as his wisdom is shown by placing high officers up and down the country for administration.
The chapter shows the utmost height of earthly grandeur and triumph to which God exalted Solomon and Israel. Under that administration the people are numerous and contented and his fame spreads into neighboring lands and was in all nations round about. God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart even as the sand on the seashore, making him wiser than all men. He spoke 3000 proverbs and his songs were 1005, he spoke of trees from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that springs out of the wall, and he had knowledge of all beasts and fowls and creeping things and fishes and was able to discourse respecting them. The height of prosperity shown proves that nothing permanently good can be made out of poor human nature by the utmost grant of earthly prosperity alone without schooling in adversity and affliction.