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 1:5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
• Heb 5:14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
• Prov 16:16How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
• John 5:30I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
• Prov 2:3–9Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
• 2 Sam 14:17Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.
• Prov 3:13–18Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
• 1 Chr 22:12Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.
• Isa 11:2–4And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
• Eccl 7:11Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
• Ps 119:144The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
• Eph 5:17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
• Exod 4:10–13And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
• Ps 72:1–2Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.
• Matt 3:14But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
• Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
• 1 Cor 2:14–15But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Eccl 9:15–18Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
• 1 Chr 29:19And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.
• 2 Cor 2:16To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
• 2 Chr 1:10Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?
• Prov 20:12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
• 2 Cor 3:5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Exod 3:11–12And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
• Matt 3:11I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
• Phil 1:10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
• Eccl 7:19Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
• 1 Kgs 3:28And all 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 judgment.
• Ps 119:73Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
• Jer 1:6Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
• Prov 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

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