Ecclesiastes 2:9

“So I was great, etc.] Became famous for the great works wrought by him before mentioned; and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem; the Targum adds, “in riches”; but it seems rather to respect his fame and glory among men; though in general it may include his increase of wealth, power, and honour, and everything that contributed to his external happiness; also my wisdom remained with me; the Targum adds, “and it helped me”; which he exercised and showed in the government of his kingdom, in the conduct of his family, in his personal deportment and behaviour; amidst all his pleasures, he did not neglect the study of natural knowledge, nor give himself up to sordid and sinful…”

“great--opulent (Gen 24:35; Job 1:3; see Kg1 10:23). remained-- (Ecc 2:3).”

“Great - In riches, and power, and glory. My wisdom remained - As yet I was not wholly seduced from God. Ecclesiastes 2:10”

“2:9 I became greater: Cp. 1 Kgs 10:23. • Solomon’s wisdom enabled his successful rise in power and prosperity (see 1 Kgs 3:2-14; 4:20-34).”

“Ecc 1:16; Kg1 3:12, Kg1 10:7, Kg1 10:23; Ch1 29:25; Ch2 1:1, Ch2 9:22, Ch2 9:23 Ecclesiastes 2:10”

“"And I became great, and was always greater than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. And all that mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I refused not any kind of joy to my heart; for my heart had joy of all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. And I turned myself to all the works which my hands had done, and to the labour which I had laboured to accomplish: and, behold, all was vain, and windy effort, and there was no true profit under the sun." In vehosaphti there is here no obj. as at Ecc 1:16; the obj. is the gedullah, the greatness, to be concluded and thought of from vegadalti, "and I became great." To the impers. היה for היוּ, 7b,…”