1 Kings 4:29

God gave Solomon immense wisdom, understanding, and breadth of mind. This is the fulfillment of God's gift promised at Gibeon.

Cross-references · 17

• 1 Kgs 3:12Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
• 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.
• 1 Kgs 4:20Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
• Eccl 2:26For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
• 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.
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
• Prov 2:6For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
• 2 Chr 1:10–12Give 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?
• Isa 60:5Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
• 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.
• Jer 33:22As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
• Gen 41:49And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
• Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
• Eccl 1:16I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
• Judg 7:12And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
• 1 Kgs 10:23–24So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
• Hab 1:9They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

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