Heart Wisdom

2 Chronicles 9:23
All the kings of the earth sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

A heart full of wisdom. So great a reputation that all the kings of the earth went to Israel to hear him speak. What was that world like, the earth of two or three millennia ago? If you lived there, it wasn't like anything. It just was.
It was an earth without the sound of machines, but plenty of animal sounds and smells. It had rivers and seas, and naturally grown food. Somehow some people managed to live very opulently, Solomon among them, as well as some of those other kings. Many other people lived simply, very simply, almost unimaginably simply. Small houses made of earth or stone. No glass. Cooking over a fire, camp-style, or in the simplest of fireplaces or ovens. They lived close to their animals and their crops, and the medical help was very primitive. They must have lived close to death as well. They had music. There was always music. If you have nothing else, you can still sing. They knew about God. And the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.