Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Bible References

The glory

Deuteronomy 29:29
The hidden things of the LORD our God are uncovered unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Job 11:7
Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou come unto the perfection of the Almighty?
Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Cause me to know, if thou hast understanding.
Job 40:2
Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? Let him that disputes with God answer this.
Job 42:3
Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore, I have denounced that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments and his ways past finding out!

The honour

1 Kings 3:9
Give, therefore, thy slave a hearing heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this thy so great a people?
1 Kings 4:29
And God gave Solomon exceedingly great wisdom and intelligence and magnanimity of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
Ezra 4:15
that search may be made in the book of the records of our fathers; so shalt thou find in the book of the records and know that this city is a rebellious city and hurtful unto kings and provinces and that from old time they form rebellions in the midst of her, for which cause this city was destroyed.
Ezra 5:17
Now, therefore, if it seems good to the king, let there be a search made in the king's treasure house, which is there in Babylon, whether it is so, that a decree was made by Cyrus, the king, to build this house of God in Jerusalem, and let the king send unto us his will concerning this matter.
Ezra 6:1
Then Darius, the king, gave a commandment, and a search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy; and the cause which I did not know I searched out.