Chapter 4

Names of those who, for one month each, provided food and goods to the palace of the King.

This verse:

20 Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy. 21  Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. [1Ki 4:20-21 ESV]

Doesn't this say that God's promise to Abraham about his descendants is now fulfilled - that he would be a nation, and have offspring as the sands of the sea?  And the land...From the Euphrates to Egypt.  Isn't this what was promised?  A good study here.  There are maps in many Bibles of the extend of David's kingdom and then Solomon's superimposed.  The map in TCR seems a little bit less than promised...but I didn't go back and look at the promises exactly.

29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore, 30 so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt. 31 For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations. [1Ki 4:29-31 ESV]

This implies to me that there is a knowledge component to wisdom.  If one is wise enough, then the way things work becomes obvious.  I think this ties in with wisdom being with God at creation, so that all things work in an ordered manner.  Understanding this order would therefore require wisdom first.  Knowledge alone would only take one so far.