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1 Kings 3:12

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Communion;   Dream;   Heart;   Longevity;   Prayer;   Solomon;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Prayer;   The Topic Concordance - Obedience;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dreams;   Justice;   Prayer, Answers to;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes;   Gibeon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Biblical Theology;   Justice;   Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Mind/reason;   Prayer;   Wisdom;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Heart;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, the Book of;   Meshach;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Intercession;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hardening of Heart;   Worldliness (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dream;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Wisdom (1);  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, in the Old Testament;   Divide;   Dream;   Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher;   Intercession;   Wisdom of Solomon, the;  

Contextual Overview

5 At Giv‘on Adonai appeared to Shlomo in a dream at night; God said, "Tell me what I should give you." 5 In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. 5 While Solomon was at Gibeon, the Lord came to him at night in a dream. God said, "Solomon, ask me what you want me to give you." 5 In Giv`on the LORD appeared to Shlomo in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give you. 5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said: 'Ask what I shall give thee.' 5 In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. 5 In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you. 5 And in Gibeon the Lorde appeared to Solomon in a dreame by night, and God sayd: Aske what thou wilt, that I may geue it thee. 5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Salomon in a dreame by night: and God sayd, Aske what I shal giue thee. 5 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in a vision by night; and God said to him, Ask that which I should give you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Behold, 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.
I have done Psalms 10:17; Isaiah 65:24; Romans 8:26,27; 1 John 5:14,15
I have given
28; 2:6,9; 4:29-34; 5:12; 10:3-8,23,24; 2 Chronicles 1:11,12; 2:12; 9:5-8; Ecclesiastes 1:13,16; Luke 21:15
neither
Matthew 12:42; Colossians 2:3
Reciprocal: Exodus 31:6 - wise hearted;  Exodus 35:35 - he filled;  Deuteronomy 34:9 - full of the spirit;  1 Kings 4:31 - wiser;  2 Chronicles 9:2 - there;  2 Chronicles 9:22 - passed all the kings;  Job 32:8 - the inspiration;  Psalm 119:173 - for;  Proverbs 2:6 - the Lord;  Proverbs 16:21 - wise;  Ecclesiastes 2:9 - GeneralEcclesiastes 2:15 - even to me;  Ecclesiastes 7:23 - I said;  Daniel 1:17 - God;  James 1:5 - any;  James 3:17 - the wisdom;  2 Peter 3:15 - according

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like.
Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "I see that it is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the companion he needs, one just right for him."
Genesis 2:18
The LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
Genesis 2:18
And the LORD God said: 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.'
Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God sayde: It is not good yt the man should be alone, I wyll make hym an helpe lyke vnto hym.
Genesis 2:18
Also the Lorde God saide, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I wil make him an helpe meete for him.
Genesis 2:18
Then the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper who is like him.
Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him."
Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, let us make for him a help suitable to him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, I have done according to thy words,.... Expressed in his request: he not only promised he would grant him it, but he had already done it, or at least had begun to do it:

lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; had greatly increased his wisdom and understanding in things political, things respecting civil government, and also in things natural, in the knowledge of the things of nature as appears from 1 Kings 4:33; and of the arts and sciences:

so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee: which some restrain to kings, and to the kings of Israel; that there were none of the kings before him, as Saul and David, like him for wisdom, nor any of the kings of Judah and Israel after him; but it may include all men of all nations in the world, since he is said to be wiser than all men; and some other nations, and particular men of other nations, famous for wisdom, are expressly mentioned as inferior to him, 1 Kings 4:30; but then this must be understood of men since the fall; for Adam, doubtless, had a larger stock of knowledge and understanding in his state of innocence than ever Solomon had; and it must be restrained to political and natural knowledge; for, as for divine knowledge, Kimchi excepts Moses; and we may well except the apostles of Christ for spiritual and evangelical knowledge; and as for our Lord, the antitype of Solomon, he is greater than him in all kind of knowledge, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge being hid in him, see Matthew 12:42.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A wise and an understanding heart - Solomon‘s wisdom seems to have been both moral and intellectual (see 1 Kings 4:29-34). But it was moral wisdom alone which he requested, and which was promised him. The terms translated “wise” and “understanding,” both denote practical wisdom. (See Genesis 41:33, Genesis 41:39; Deuteronomy 4:6; Proverbs 1:2, etc.)

Neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee - i. e. in the knowledge of what was in man, and in the wisdom to direct men‘s goings, he was to be the wisest of “all” mere men. In such wisdom the world would know one only “greater than Solomon” Matthew 12:42; Luke 11:31.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart - I have given thee a capacious mind, one capable of knowing much: make a proper use of thy powers, under the direction of my Spirit, and thou shalt excel in wisdom all that have gone before thee; neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. But, query, Was not all this conditional? If he should walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and commandments, 1 Kings 3:14. Was it not to depend upon his proper use of initiatory inspirations? Did he ever receive all this wisdom? Did not his unfaithfulness prevent the fulfillment of the Divine purpose? Instead of being the wisest of men, did he not become more brutish than any man? Did he not even lose the knowledge of his Creator, and worship the abominations of the Moabites, Zidonians, etc., etc.! And was not such idolatry a proof of the grossest stupidity? How few proofs does his life give that the gracious purpose of God was fulfilled in him! He received much; but he would have received much more, had he been faithful to the grace given. No character in the sacred writings disappoints us more than the character of Solomon.

None like thee before thee - That is, no king, either in Israel or among the nations, as the following verse explains.


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