New International Version

1 Kings 4:28-32 New International Version (NIV)

28. They also brought to the proper place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and the other horses.

29. God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore.

30. Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

31. He was wiser than anyone else, including Ethan the Ezrahite—wiser than Heman, Kalkol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread to all the surrounding nations.

32. He spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered a thousand and five.