Who is the smartest person that ever lived?

Answer 1

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The defining legend of Solomon was his great wisdom, gifted to him by God. If there ever was a King Solomon, The Bible says that he was the wisest of kings. However, finding specific biblical examples of his wisdom proves difficult. In fact, the story of the two mothers is the only biblical account that purports to show Solomon's wisdom.

Solomon, in a dream, had asked God for wisdom. Soon after God granted Solomon wisdom, two women asked for judgement over the ownership of a small baby. In this episode, Solomon gave his most famous judgement. The reader is expected to agree with Solomon when he knew that only one woman would be willing to give up her claim to the child rather than have it killed, and that woman could only have been the birth mother. Real life is more complicated, so it can be a matter for our own judgement whether the insight this passage describes was really either wise or fair, allowing us to think of Solomon as a wise ruler on this count.

In spite of his supposedly personal knowledge of God, 1 Kings chapter 11 says that Solomon unwisely began to worship other gods. Elsewhere in the Bible, Solomon demonstrated no political wisdom, nor even sufficient smartness to govern wisely in the interests of his own son's succession to the throne of the United Monarchy. The Bible tells us that Solomon's reckless spending and swingeing taxes, maintained by his son, were the cause of the breakup of the United Monarchy.

The Jewish people needed a glorious past, with both great and wise rulers, and Solomon became part of that past. So, although not actually very smart on the biblical evidence, he was a wise ruler in tradition. Perhaps it is only by tradition that we can call Solomon 'smart'.

Answer 2

it is most definitly Amy hudd she is so brainy and intelligent!!!