1 Chronicles 29:25 -

Any king before him in Israel . There were, of course, only two kings "before" Solomon in Israel. The promise of God to Solomon, however, when he was "pleased" with the speech of the prayer which he offered a very short time subsequently, was much larger, and suggests itself to us as what may really have been present to the mind of the historian when he used the less comprehensive words above ( 2 Chronicles 1:12 ; 1 Kings 4:12 , 1 Kings 4:13 ).