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, Jehovah give to thee wisdom and understanding, and charge thee concerning Israel, even to keep the law of Jehovah thy God;

and to Solomon my son give a perfect heart, to keep Thy commands, Thy testimonies, and Thy statutes, and to do the whole, even to build the palace for which I have prepared.'

now, wisdom and knowledge give to me, and I go out before this people, and I come in, for who doth judge this Thy great people?'

Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.

For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,

O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding.

To get wisdom -- how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

To judge

And all Israel hear of the judgment that the king hath judged, and fear because of the king, for they have seen that the wisdom of God is in his heart, to do judgment.

By Solomon. O God, Thy judgments to the king give, And Thy righteousness to the king's son.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, And the folly of fools is deceit.

Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And an advantage it is to those beholding the sun.

and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!

'I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

Who is able

And Moses saith unto God, 'Who am I, that I go unto Pharaoh, and that I bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt?'

And Moses saith unto Jehovah, 'O, my Lord, I am not a man of words, either yesterday, or before, or since Thy speaking unto Thy servant, for I am slow of mouth, and slow of tongue.'

And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah! lo, I have not known -- to speak, for I am a youth.'

'I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,

General references

And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

And Moses saith unto God, 'Who am I, that I go unto Pharaoh, and that I bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt?'

'How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?

And the wisdom -- whence is it found? And where is this, the place of understanding?

For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,

The heart of the intelligent getteth knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.