Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 3:13

13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days .

Either, First, I have granted and decreed to give: for words signifying action, are oft put onely for the purpose of the action. Or rather, Secondly, I will give, as it is expressed in the Parallel place, 2 Chron. 1. 12. I will as certainly give them, as if I had actually done it; for future certain things are oft expressed in Scripture in the past time, as is well known to all.

So it is true of all the succeeding Kings of Israel, of whom he speaks. Or, hath not been, as it is in the Hebrew: and so it may be true of all the Kings that then were or had been in the world, whereof none was like to him, to wit, in all the things here mentioned, and wherein he is compared with them, which is not onely in Riches, but also in Wisdom, and in Honour or Renown.

To wit, of thy life. Whereby he signifies, that these gifts of God were not temporary and transient, as they were in Saul, but such as should abide with him whilst he lived.

Marginal references: Mat. 6. [illegible: 1 word]; Or, [illegible: 1 word] not been.