◄ 2 Chronicles 9:7 ►
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Good News Translation
How fortunate are those who serve you, who are always in your presence and are privileged to hear your wise sayings!

New Revised Standard Version
Happy are your people! Happy are these your servants, who continually attend you and hear your wisdom!

Contemporary English Version
Your people and officials are lucky to be here where they can listen to the wise things you say.

New American Bible
Happy your servants, happy these ministers of yours, who stand before you always and listen to your wisdom.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Happy are thy men, and happy are thy servants, who stand always before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Happy are thy men, and happy are thy servants, who stand always before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

Deuteronomy 33:9 Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant,

1 Kings 10:8 Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand before thee always, and hear thy wisdom.

Psalm 27:4 One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

Psalm 84:10-12 For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners. . . .

Proverbs 3:3,14 And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men. . . .

Proverbs 8:34 He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.

Proverbs 10:21 The blessing of the Lord maketh men rich: neither shall affliction be joined to them.

Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.

Luke 10:39-42 And she had a sister called Mary. who, sitting also at the Lord's feet, heard his word. . . .

Luke 11:28 But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

Context
The Queen of Sheba
…6I did not believe them that told it, until I came, and my eyes had seen, and I had proved that scarce one half of thy wisdom had been told me: thou hast exceeded the same with thy virtues. 7Happy are thy men, and happy are thy servants, who stand always before thee, and hear thy wisdom.8Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath been pleased to set thee on his throne, king of the Lord thy God. Because God loveth Israel, and will preserve them forever: therefore hath he made thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 9:6
I did not believe them that told it, until I came, and my eyes had seen, and I had proved that scarce one half of thy wisdom had been told me: thou hast exceeded the same with thy virtues.

2 Chronicles 9:8
Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath been pleased to set thee on his throne, king of the Lord thy God. Because God loveth Israel, and will preserve them forever: therefore hath he made thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

2 Chronicles 9:6
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