"And God gave Solomon very much wisdom and understanding and largeness of mind like the sand that is on the seashore." — The *divine gift*, first promised at Gibeon, is now *realized in historical reality*: *YHVH natan le-Shlomoh chokhma ve-tevuna ve-merchav-lev harbe me'od ka-khol asher 'al-sof ha-yam* (God gave Solomon very much wisdom and understanding and largeness of mind like the sand on the seashore). The *comparison to the seashore sand* echoes the Abrahamic promise and suggests wisdom as *literally innumerable*, *boundless*, *immeasurable*.

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