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

General references

Bible References

Give therefore

Only the LORD give you wisdom and understanding, and give you charge concerning Israel, that you may keep the law of the LORD your God.

And give unto 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.

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this your people, that are so great?

Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

Yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;

Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and reproaches not; and it shall be given him.

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

To judge

And 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 justice.

[A Psalm of Solomon.] Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness unto the king's son.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

Now 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.

I can of my own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who has sent me.

Who is able

And 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?

And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before, nor since you have spoken unto your servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:

To the one we are the fragrance of death unto death; and to the other the fragrance of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

General references

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:

And 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?

How can I myself alone bear your weight, and your burden, and your strife?

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.