The wisdom of Solomon, which all the earth came to hear, was that which came from God and which led to God. In this higher wisdom lay the secret of the real strength and glory of the kingdom of Israel.
The earth sought.
It was God’s purpose that Israel should be set “on high above all nations of the earth,” and that it should be “the head, and not the tail” (Deut. 28:1, 13). But the child of God seeks first the kingdom of God (Matt. 6:33, Luke 12:31). The world’s highest wisdom is the wisdom of God, and that wisdom is the foundation of all other wisdom, and the secret of finding the greatest blessings and treasures of earth. The purpose of God was being fulfilled in the exaltation of Israel. The nations who “sought to Solomon” were to hear of Solomon’s God, and receive an invitation to accept the religion of Jehovah. Gradually, through such contacts and through aggressive missionary effort the world was to be evangelized.