1 Kings 3:9

Solomon asks for an understanding heart to discern good and evil and govern justly. He prizes wisdom for serving others above personal gain.

Cross-references · 32

• Jas 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
• Heb 5:14But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
• Prov 16:16How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
• John 5:30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
• Prov 2:3–9Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
• 2 Sam 14:17Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”
• Prov 3:13–18Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.
• 1 Chr 22:12May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
• Isa 11:2–4Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
• Eccl 7:11Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
• Ps 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. KUF
• Eph 5:17Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
• Exod 4:10–13Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”
• Ps 72:1–2By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
• Matt 3:14But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”
• Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
• 1 Cor 2:14–15Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Eccl 9:15–18Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
• 1 Chr 29:19and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”
• 2 Cor 2:16to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
• 2 Chr 1:10Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”
• Prov 20:12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
• 2 Cor 3:5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Exod 3:11–12Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
• Matt 3:11I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
• Phil 1:10so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;
• Eccl 7:19Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
• 1 Kgs 3:28All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
• Ps 119:73Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
• Jer 1:6Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”
• Prov 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

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