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He also spoke about animals and birds, reptiles and fish. <a href="/nlt/1_kings/4.htm">New Living Translation</a> He could speak with authority about all kinds of plants, from the great cedar of Lebanon to the tiny hyssop that grows from cracks in a wall. He could also speak about animals, birds, small creatures, and fish. <a href="/esv/1_kings/4.htm">English Standard Version</a> He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish. <a href="/bsb/1_kings/4.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. <a href="/kjv/1_kings/4.htm">King James Bible</a> And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. <a href="/nkjv/1_kings/4.htm">New King James Version</a> 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 href="/nasb_/1_kings/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> He told of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he told also of animals, birds, crawling things, and fish. <a href="/nasb/1_kings/4.htm">NASB 1995</a> He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish. <a href="/nasb77/1_kings/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a> And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish. <a href="/lsb/1_kings/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish. <a href="/amp/1_kings/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a> He spoke of trees, from the cedar which is in Lebanon to the hyssop [vine] that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and fish. <a href="/csb/1_kings/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> He spoke about trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall. He also spoke about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. <a href="/hcsb/1_kings/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> He described trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall. He also taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. <a href="/asv/1_kings/4.htm">American Standard Version</a> And he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spake also of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fishes. <a href="/cev/1_kings/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> He could talk about all kinds of plants, from large trees to small bushes, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. <a href="/erv/1_kings/4.htm">English Revised Version</a> And he spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. <a href="/gwt/1_kings/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> He described and classified trees-from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall. He described and classified animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. <a href="/gnt/1_kings/4.htm">Good News Translation</a> He spoke of trees and plants, from the Lebanon cedars to the hyssop that grows on walls; he talked about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. <a href="/isv/1_kings/4.htm">International Standard Version</a> He described trees—everything from cedars that grow in Lebanon to hyssop that grows on a garden wall. He described animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. <a href="/msb/1_kings/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish. <a href="/net/1_kings/4.htm">NET Bible</a> He produced manuals on botany, describing every kind of plant, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows on walls. He also produced manuals on biology, describing animals, birds, insects, and fish. <a href="/nheb/1_kings/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of crawling creatures, and of fish. <a href="/wbt/1_kings/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping animals, and of fishes. <a href="/web/1_kings/4.htm">World English Bible</a> He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/1_kings/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> and he speaks concerning the trees, from the cedar that [is] in Lebanon, even to the hyssop that is coming out in the wall, and he speaks concerning the livestock, and concerning the bird, and concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fishes, <a href="/ylt/1_kings/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> and he speaketh concerning the trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that is coming out in the wall, and he speaketh concerning the cattle, and concerning the fowl, and concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fishes, <a href="/slt/1_kings/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And he will speak concerning the woods, from the cedar which is in Lebanon, even to the hyssop which went forth on the wall: and he will speak upon the cattle, and upon the birds, and upon the creeping things, and upon the fishes.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/1_kings/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And he treated about trees from the cedar that is in Libanus, unto the hyssop that cometh out of the wall: and he discoursed of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes. <a href="/cpdv/1_kings/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And he discoursed about trees, from the cedar which is in Lebanon, to the hyssop which grows out from the wall. And he explained about beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and fish. <a href="/nabre/1_kings/4.htm">New American Bible</a> He spoke of plants, from the cedar on Lebanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall, and he spoke about beasts, birds, reptiles, and fishes. <a href="/nrsvce/1_kings/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> He would speak of trees, from the cedar that is in the Lebanon to the hyssop that grows in the wall; he would speak of animals, and birds, and reptiles, and fish.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/1_kings/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the, hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts and of fowl and of creeping things and of fishes. <a href="/hpbt/1_kings/4.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And he spoke about trees, from the cedars of Lebanon and unto the lof bean plant that goes forth in the wall, and he spoke about animal and about bird and about creeping things and about fish.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/1_kings/4.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. <a href="/sep/1_kings/4.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And he spoke of trees, from the cedar in Libanus even to the hyssop which comes out through the wall: he spoke also of cattle, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fishes. <a href="/parallel/1_kings/4-33.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xx9A0AxPaoQ?start=1720" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/1_kings/4.htm">Solomon's Wisdom</a> …32Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five. 33<a href="/hebrew/1696.htm" title="1696: way·ḏab·bêr (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To speak. A primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively, to speak; rarely to subdue.">He spoke</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">of</a> <a href="/hebrew/6086.htm" title="6086: hā·‘ê·ṣîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Tree, trees, wood. From atsah; a tree; hence, wood.">trees,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4480.htm" title="4480: min- (Prep) -- From. Or minniy; or minney; for men; properly, a part of; hence, from or out of in many senses.">from</a> <a href="/hebrew/730.htm" title="730: hā·’e·rez (Art:: N-ms) -- A cedar. From 'araz; a cedar tree.">the cedar</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3844.htm" title="3844: bal·lə·ḇā·nō·wn (Prep-b, Art:: N-proper-fs) -- A wooded mountain range on the N. border of Isr. From lbab; white mountain; Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine.">in Lebanon</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: wə·‘aḏ (Conj-w:: Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/231.htm" title="231: hā·’ê·zō·wḇ (Art:: N-ms) -- Hyssop. Probably of foreign derivation; hyssop.">the hyssop</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3318.htm" title="3318: yō·ṣê (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- A primitive root; to go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.">growing</a> <a href="/hebrew/7023.htm" title="7023: baq·qîr (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A wall. Or qir; or qiyrah; from quwr; a wall.">in the wall,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1696.htm" title="1696: way·ḏab·bêr (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To speak. A primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively, to speak; rarely to subdue.">and he taught</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">about</a> <a href="/hebrew/929.htm" title="929: hab·bə·hê·māh (Art:: N-fs) -- A beast, animal, cattle. From an unused root; properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal.">animals,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: wə·‘al- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5775.htm" title="5775: hā·‘ō·wp̄ (Art:: N-ms) -- Flying creatures. From uwph; a bird, often collectively.">birds,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: wə·‘al- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7431.htm" title="7431: hā·re·meś (Art:: N-ms) -- Creeping things, moving things. From ramas; a reptile or any other rapidly moving animal.">reptiles,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: wə·‘al- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1709.htm" title="1709: had·dā·ḡîm (Art:: N-mp) -- A fish. Or dag; from dagah; a fish; or perhaps rather from da'ag; but still better from da'ag; a fish.">and fish.</a> 34So men of all nations came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/genesis/1-11.htm">Genesis 1:11-12</a> Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so. / The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. <a href="/psalms/104-14.htm">Psalm 104:14</a> He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth: <a href="/job/12-7.htm">Job 12:7-8</a> But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you. / Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you. <a href="/proverbs/30-24.htm">Proverbs 30:24-28</a> Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise: / The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer; / the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks; ... <a href="/ecclesiastes/1-13.htm">Ecclesiastes 1:13</a> And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a miserable task God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them! <a href="/isaiah/28-26.htm">Isaiah 28:26-29</a> For his God instructs and teaches him properly. / Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. / Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it. ... <a href="/ezekiel/31-6.htm">Ezekiel 31:6</a> All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade. <a href="/matthew/6-28.htm">Matthew 6:28-30</a> And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin. / Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. / If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? <a href="/matthew/13-31.htm">Matthew 13:31-32</a> He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field. / Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.” <a href="/luke/12-27.htm">Luke 12:27</a> Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. <a href="/romans/1-20.htm">Romans 1:20</a> For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. <a href="/1_corinthians/15-38.htm">1 Corinthians 15:38-39</a> But God gives it a body as He has designed, and to each kind of seed He gives its own body. / Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another. <a href="/james/3-7.htm">James 3:7</a> All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, <a href="/psalms/148-7.htm">Psalm 148:7-10</a> Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths, / lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word, / mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars, ... <a href="/job/38-39.htm">Job 38:39-41</a> Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions / when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket? / Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.<a href="/numbers/24-6.htm">Numbers 24:6</a> As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.<a href="/2_kings/19-23.htm">2 Kings 19:23</a> By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.<a href="/psalms/92-12.htm">Psalm 92:12</a> The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.the hyssop<a href="/exodus/12-22.htm">Exodus 12:22</a> And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.<a href="/numbers/19-18.htm">Numbers 19:18</a> And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:<a href="/psalms/51-7.htm">Psalm 51:7</a> Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.of beasts<a href="/genesis/1-20.htm">Genesis 1:20-25</a> And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_samuel/21-10.htm">Animals</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-23.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/2_samuel/21-10.htm">Birds</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-23.htm">Cattle</a> <a href="/2_samuel/7-7.htm">Cedar</a> <a href="/songs/5-15.htm">Cedar-Tree</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/14-19.htm">Creeping</a> <a href="/judges/8-14.htm">Described</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-31.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/4-18.htm">Fish</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/33-23.htm">Fishes</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-23.htm">Fowl</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-23.htm">Fowls</a> <a href="/judges/19-9.htm">Grows</a> <a href="/2_samuel/21-13.htm">Hanging</a> <a href="/numbers/19-18.htm">Hyssop</a> <a href="/judges/9-15.htm">Lebanon</a> <a href="/2_samuel/7-10.htm">Plant</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-2.htm">Plants</a> <a href="/james/3-7.htm">Reptiles</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-32.htm">Sayings</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-20.htm">Small</a> <a href="/2_samuel/23-4.htm">Springeth</a> <a href="/2_samuel/23-4.htm">Springs</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-25.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/2_samuel/5-24.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-1.htm">Wall</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_kings/18-5.htm">Animals</a> <a href="/1_kings/10-25.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/1_kings/14-11.htm">Birds</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-5.htm">Cattle</a> <a href="/1_kings/5-6.htm">Cedar</a> <a href="/songs/5-15.htm">Cedar-Tree</a> <a href="/psalms/104-25.htm">Creeping</a> <a href="/job/26-10.htm">Described</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-34.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-14.htm">Fish</a> <a href="/job/12-8.htm">Fishes</a> <a href="/1_kings/14-11.htm">Fowl</a> <a href="/1_kings/14-11.htm">Fowls</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-26.htm">Grows</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-29.htm">Hanging</a> <a href="/psalms/51-7.htm">Hyssop</a> <a href="/1_kings/5-6.htm">Lebanon</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-26.htm">Plant</a> <a href="/2_kings/4-39.htm">Plants</a> <a href="/micah/7-17.htm">Reptiles</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/13-22.htm">Sayings</a> <a href="/1_kings/10-17.htm">Small</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-29.htm">Springeth</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-5.htm">Springs</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-23.htm">Tree</a> <a href="/1_kings/5-6.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-5.htm">Wall</a><div class="vheading2">1 Kings 4</div>1. <a href="/1_kings/4-1.htm">Solomon's princes</a> 7. <a href="/1_kings/4-7.htm">His twelve officers for provision</a> 20. <a href="/1_kings/4-20.htm">The peace and largeness of his kingdom</a> 22. <a href="/1_kings/4-22.htm">His daily provision</a> 26. <a href="/1_kings/4-26.htm">His stable</a> 29. <a href="/1_kings/4-29.htm">His wisdom</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The cedar of Lebanon was renowned for its size, strength, and durability, often used in the construction of temples and palaces, including Solomon's own temple (<a href="/1_kings/6-9.htm">1 Kings 6:9-10</a>). This symbolizes strength and grandeur. In contrast, hyssop, a small plant growing in walls, was used in purification rituals (<a href="/exodus/12-22.htm">Exodus 12:22</a>, <a href="/leviticus/14-4.htm">Leviticus 14:4-6</a>), symbolizing humility and cleansing. This range from cedar to hyssop illustrates the breadth of Solomon's wisdom, covering both the grand and the modest aspects of creation, reflecting the comprehensive nature of divine wisdom.and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish Solomon's teachings extended to all categories of living creatures, indicating a deep understanding of the natural world. This knowledge reflects the dominion mandate given to humanity in <a href="/genesis/1-28.htm">Genesis 1:28</a>, where humans are called to steward and understand creation. The mention of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish suggests a taxonomy that encompasses all life forms, similar to the categories found in <a href="/genesis/1.htm">Genesis 1</a>. Solomon's wisdom in these areas prefigures the perfect knowledge of Christ, who is described as the one in whom "are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (<a href="/colossians/2-3.htm">Colossians 2:3</a>). Solomon's role as a teacher of creation points to the ultimate fulfillment in Christ, who reconciles all creation to Himself (<a href="/colossians/1-20.htm">Colossians 1:20</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/s/solomon.htm">Solomon</a> The son of King David and Bathsheba, Solomon is renowned for his wisdom, wealth, and building projects, including the Temple in Jerusalem. In this verse, his wisdom is demonstrated through his knowledge of nature. 2. <a href="/topical/c/cedar_of_lebanon.htm">Cedar of Lebanon</a> A symbol of strength and majesty, the cedar trees of Lebanon were highly valued in the ancient world for their quality and durability. They were used in the construction of Solomon's Temple. 3. <a href="/topical/h/hyssop.htm">Hyssop</a> A small plant used in purification rituals in the Old Testament. Its mention here contrasts with the grandeur of the cedar, showing Solomon's comprehensive knowledge from the greatest to the least. 4. <a href="/topical/a/animals,_birds,_reptiles,_and_fish.htm">Animals, Birds, Reptiles, and Fish</a> These categories represent the breadth of Solomon's understanding of the natural world, indicating his God-given wisdom extended beyond human affairs to all creation.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/w/wisdom_from_god.htm">Wisdom from God</a> Solomon's wisdom was a gift from God. We should seek wisdom from God in all areas of life, recognizing that true understanding comes from Him. <a href="/topical/a/appreciation_of_creation.htm">Appreciation of Creation</a> Solomon's knowledge of nature encourages us to appreciate and study God's creation, seeing His hand in the world around us. <a href="/topical/h/humility_in_knowledge.htm">Humility in Knowledge</a> Despite Solomon's vast knowledge, he remained a servant of God. We should remain humble, acknowledging that our understanding is limited compared to God's infinite wisdom. <a href="/topical/s/stewardship_of_creation.htm">Stewardship of Creation</a> Understanding and appreciating nature should lead us to be good stewards of the environment, caring for it as part of God's creation. <a href="/topical/b/balance_in_life.htm">Balance in Life</a> Solomon's interest in diverse subjects suggests the importance of a balanced life, where we cultivate various interests and skills, all under the guidance of God's wisdom.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_kings_4.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Kings 4</a> <a href="/q/how_does_solomon_use_his_magic_ring.htm">How does Solomon control demons using a magical ring?</a> <a href="/q/what_events_are_described_in_1_kings.htm">What events are described in 1 Kings?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_proverbs_1_7_align_with_science.htm">How can “the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7) be reconciled with scientific inquiry that does not require belief in God? </a> <a href="/q/any_records_of_cedar,_hyssop,_yarn_use.htm">Numbers 19:6: Are there any historical or archaeological records confirming the use of cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet yarn in sacrificial rituals?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_kings/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(33) He spake of trees.--Of this verse there have been many interpretations. Josephus (Ant. viii. c.2, ? 5) supposes Solomon's utterances on these natural products to have been allegorical and symbolic, although he declares that he described them and their properties "like a philosopher." Rabbinical and Oriental legends, eagerly accepted in mediaeval times, ascribed to him mystic knowledge and magical use of their occult properties. Modern writers have seen in this utterance the first dawn of a scientific natural history and idyllic poetry. In all these suppositions there is some truth, though each in its literal meaning evidently interprets the work of Solomon by the ideas of its own time. An examination of the Song of Songs, and even of the Book of Proverbs--to say nothing of Ecclesiastes and several of the Psalms, and of the Book of Job, which has been thought to belong to the age of Solomon--shows in them repeated exemplifications of a deep sense of the wonder and the beauty of Nature, and also a keen observation of Natural history in detail But it also shows, as might have been expected, a constant contemplation of God in and over Nature (much as in Psalms 104), a desire to know the secret of His dispensation therein, a conception of a unity in His law over all being, and as a necessary consequence of this, a tendency to mystic interpretation and parable. If in the works here referred to, and now lost to us, there were (as Ewald supposes) "the rudiments of a complete natural history," it would be an anachronism to doubt that they were marked by these leading characteristics.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_kings/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 33. - And he spare of [i.e., discoursed, treated, not necessarily wrote] trees [In his proverbs and songs he exceeded the children of the East. But his knowledge was not only speculative, but scientific. In his acquaintance with natural history he outshone the Egyptians, ver. 20], from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon [A favourite illustration. The Jews had a profound admiration for all trees, and of these they justly regarded the cedar as king. Cf. <a href="/judges/9-15.htm">Judges 9:15</a>; <a href="/psalms/80-10.htm">Psalm 80:10</a>; <a href="/psalms/104-16.htm">Psalm 104:16</a>; <a href="/songs/5-15.htm">Song of Solomon 5:15</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/31-3.htm">Ezekiel 31:3</a>] unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall [His knowledge, i.e., embraced the least productions of nature as well as the greatest. The common hyssop (<a href="/exodus/12-22.htm">Exodus 12:22</a>; <a href="/leviticus/14-4.htm">Leviticus 14:4</a>) can hardly be intended here, as that often attains a considerable height (two feet), but a miniature variety or moss like hyssop in appearance, probably Orthotrichura saxatile]: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. ["The usual Biblical division of the animal kingdom" (Rawlinson). The arrangment is hardly according to manner of motion (Bahr). If anything, it is according to elements - earth, sky, sea. Both Jewish and Mohammedan writers abound in exaggerated or purely fabulous accounts of Solomon's attainments and gifts. We may see the beginning of these in Jos., Ant. 8:02.5. <a href="/commentaries/1_kings/4-33.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>He spoke וַיְדַבֵּר֮ (way·ḏab·bêr) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1696.htm">Strong's 1696: </a> To arrange, to speak, to subdue of trees, הָֽעֵצִים֒ (hā·‘ê·ṣîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6086.htm">Strong's 6086: </a> Tree, trees, wood from מִן־ (min-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4480.htm">Strong's 4480: </a> A part of, from, out of the cedar הָאֶ֙רֶז֙ (hā·’e·rez) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_730.htm">Strong's 730: </a> A cedar tree in Lebanon בַּלְּבָנ֔וֹן (bal·lə·ḇā·nō·wn) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3844.htm">Strong's 3844: </a> Lebanon -- a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel to וְעַד֙ (wə·‘aḏ) Conjunctive waw | Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while the hyssop הָאֵז֔וֹב (hā·’ê·zō·wḇ) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_231.htm">Strong's 231: </a> Hyssop growing יֹצֵ֖א (yō·ṣê) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3318.htm">Strong's 3318: </a> To go, bring, out, direct and proxim in the wall, בַּקִּ֑יר (baq·qîr) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7023.htm">Strong's 7023: </a> A wall and he taught וַיְדַבֵּר֙ (way·ḏab·bêr) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1696.htm">Strong's 1696: </a> To arrange, to speak, to subdue about עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against animals, הַבְּהֵמָ֣ה (hab·bə·hê·māh) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_929.htm">Strong's 929: </a> A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal birds, הָע֔וֹף (hā·‘ō·wp̄) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5775.htm">Strong's 5775: </a> Flying creatures reptiles, הָרֶ֖מֶשׂ (hā·re·meś) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7431.htm">Strong's 7431: </a> A reptile, any other rapidly moving animal and fish. הַדָּגִֽים׃ (had·dā·ḡîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1709.htm">Strong's 1709: </a> A fish <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_kings/4-33.htm">1 Kings 4:33 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/1_kings/4-33.htm">1 Kings 4:33 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/1_kings/4-33.htm">1 Kings 4:33 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/1_kings/4-33.htm">1 Kings 4:33 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/1_kings/4-33.htm">1 Kings 4:33 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_kings/4-33.htm">1 Kings 4:33 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_kings/4-33.htm">1 Kings 4:33 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_kings/4-33.htm">1 Kings 4:33 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/1_kings/4-33.htm">1 Kings 4:33 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/1_kings/4-33.htm">1 Kings 4:33 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-33.htm">OT History: 1 Kings 4:33 He spoke of trees from the cedar (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_kings/4-32.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 4:32"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 4:32" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_kings/4-34.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 4:34"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 4:34" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>