And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
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Gill's Exposition
And if thou wilt walk in my ways,.... Prescribed and directed to in his word,
to keep my statutes and my commandments; ceremonial, moral, and judicial:
as thy father David did walk; which Solomon…
Barnes' Notes
A striking illustration of that law of the divine government to which Christ referred (marginal reference).
We have here an account of a gracious visit which God paid to Solomon, and the communion he had with God in it, which put a greater honour upon Solomon than all the wealth and power of his kingdom…
Cambridge Bible
so that there shall not be The Hebrew is precisely the same as in the previous verse. Render therefore -so that there hath not been." The translation of the A.V. is no doubt due to the words with…
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