Teks -- 1 Kings 4:29 (NET)

4:29 God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment; the breadth of his understanding was as infinite as the sand on the seashore.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 1Ki 4:29 - Largeness of heart

Vastness of understanding, a most comprehensive knowledge of all things both Divine and human.

JFB: 1Ki 4:29 - God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart

That is, high powers of mind, great capacity for receieving, as well as aptitude for communicating knowledge.

Clarke: 1Ki 4:29 - God gave Solomon wisdom, etc.

God gave Solomon wisdom, etc. - He gave him a capacious mind, and furnished him with extraordinary assistance to cultivate it

Clarke: 1Ki 4:29 - Even as the sand that is on the sea-shore

Even as the sand that is on the sea-shore - Lord Bacon observes on this: "As the sand on the sea-shore encloses a great body of waters, so Solomon’ s mind contained an ocean of knowledge."This is a happy and correct illustration.

TSK: 1Ki 4:29 - God // largeness // as the sand

God : 1Ki 3:12, 1Ki 3:28, 1Ki 10:23, 1Ki 10:24; 2Ch 1:10-12; Psa 119:34; Pro 2:6; Ecc 1:16, Ecc 2:26; Jam 1:5, Jam 1:17, Jam 3:17

largeness : Isa 60:5

as the sand : 1Ki 4:20; Gen 41:49; Jdg 7:12; Jer 33:22; Hab 1:9

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 1Ki 4:29 - Largeness of heart // Even as the sand that is on the sea-shore

Largeness of heart i.e. either, first, Magnanimity, or generosity, and greatness of spirit, whereby he was disposed and emboldened to undertake great things. But this seems not so well to suit with the following resemblance. Or rather, secondly, Vastness of understanding; a most comprehensive knowledge of all things, both Divine and human; for this wisdom is the thing for which he is here commended, both in the foregoing and following words.

Even as the sand that is on the sea-shore which cannot be numbered or measured; and which, though it be so vast and comprehensive, yet consists of the smallest parts: and so it may note that Solomon’ s wisdom was both vast, reaching to all things; and most accurate, searching and discerning every small thing.

Haydock: 1Ki 4:29 - Hart

Hart; magnanimity, which pride often attempts to imitate, and is therefore designated by the same expression, Proverbs xxi. 4. The genius of Solomon was also most penetrating and comprehensive. (Calmet) ---

Ænomaus thus addresses Apollo, "Thou who knowest, both the number of the sands and the extent of the sea---who understandest the dumb, and hearest the man who has not spoken." (Eusebius, præp. v. 34.) (Haydock)

Gill: 1Ki 4:29 - And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much // and largeness of heart, even as sand that is on the seashore

And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much,.... In things natural, moral, divine, and spiritual, and that not slight and superficial, but exceeding deep, and large beyond expression; and this he had not from the acuteness of his genius merely, nor from his industry and diligence; but by the gift of God, as whatsoever solid wisdom and understanding is in any man, it is from the liberal hand of God, the fountain of wisdom, Jam 1:5;

and largeness of heart, even as sand that is on the seashore; he had a genius and capacity to receive anything; his knowledge was vast and comprehensive; it reached to and included things innumerable, as the sand of the sea; there was scarce anything under the heavens, or on the earth, and in the sea, but came within the compass of it, as what are later mentioned show.