1 Kings 3:9

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Summary

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

Give therefore

To judge

Who is able

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Bible References

Give therefore

Only the Lord give you discretion and understanding, and give you charge over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

and give to my son Solomon a perfect heart to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies and Your statutes, and to do them all, and to build the temple, for which I have made provision.”

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this great people of Yours?”

Give me understanding, that I may observe Your law

And keep it with all my heart.

For if you cry for discernment,

Lift your voice for understanding;

How blessed is the man who finds wisdom

And the man who gains understanding.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold!
And to get understanding is to be chosen above silver.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.

To judge

When all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.

A Psalm of Solomon.
Give the king Your judgments, O God,
And Your righteousness to the king’s son.

The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way,
But the foolishness of fools is deceit.

Wisdom along with an inheritance is good
And an advantage to those who see the sun.

But there was found in it a poor wise man and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

Who is able

But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?”

Then Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

Then I said, “Alas, Lord God!
Behold, I do not know how to speak,
Because I am a youth.”

“As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

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And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so

you shall be a blessing;

But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?”

How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?

“But where can wisdom be found?
And where is the place of understanding?

To know wisdom and instruction,
To discern the sayings of understanding,

The

mind of the prudent acquires knowledge,

And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.