"And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore. Thus Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt." vv.29-30
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Can you imagine this wisdom! Do you desire to learn? Have wisdom? Would you have traveled far to hear someone that is like no other just to hear him speak and teach? There wasn't a topic he didn't seem cover. "He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five. Also he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree of Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish." A "largeness of heart" isn't talking about love but the ability to grasp, hold, understand knowledge of all things divine and human; an extremely comprehensive mind. Solomon's capacity of knowledge was far greater than any other man. I just watched the movie The Giver and the Giver was the one man who had all the knowledge of the history of man like Solomon it seemed like of good, bad (although he didn't have wisdom in discernment more just of memory and knowledge). Sometimes knowing all things can be very difficult of wanting to be ignorant of evil because it hurts. Also I wonder why Solomon tried evil just to understand that more that we read in his book of Ecclesiastes?
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