Fame of Solomon’s Wisdom

²⁹ God gave Solomon very great wisdom, discernment, and breadth of understanding as vast as the sand on the seashore,^{(A) 30} so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.^{(B) 31} He was wiser than anyone else, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, children of Mahol; his fame spread throughout all the surrounding nations.^(C)

¹⁴ And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

¹⁵ And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him.