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1 Kings 3:9

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Communion;   Dream;   Heart;   Judge;   Knowledge;   Prayer;   Solomon;   Wisdom;   Scofield Reference Index - Bible Prayers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Choice;   Discernment-Dullness;   Earnest Suppliants;   Earnestness-Indifference;   Insight;   Prayer;   Seven;   Solomon;   Spiritual;   Wise;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dreams;   Justice;   Magistrates;   Prayer, Answers to;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Dream;   Heart;   Judgment;   King;   Solomon;   Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Good, Goodness;   Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Prayer;   Wisdom;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adam (1);   Ecclesiastes, the Book of;   Judges;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gibeon;   Gift, Giving;   Intercession;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Judges;   Justice;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hardening of Heart;   Worldliness (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dream;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;   Wisdom (1);  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Divide;   Good;   Great;   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

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 1 Chronicles 22:12; 29:19; 2 Chronicles 1:10; Psalms 119:34,73,144; Proverbs 2:3-9; 3:13-18; Proverbs 16:16; James 1:5; 3:17
understanding
Heb. hearing.
Proverbs 20:12
to judge
28; Psalms 72:1,2; Proverbs 14:8; Ecclesiastes 7:11,19; 9:15-18; John 5:30
discern
2 Samuel 14:17; Isaiah 11:2-4; 1 Corinthians 2:14,15; Ephesians 5:17; Philippians 1:10; *Gr:; Hebrews 5:14
who is able
Exodus 3:11,12; 4:10-13; Jeremiah 1:6; Matthew 3:11,14; 2 Corinthians 2:16; 3:5
Reciprocal: Genesis 12:2 - GeneralExodus 18:17 - not good;  Exodus 18:21 - able men;  Exodus 31:3 - filled;  Deuteronomy 34:9 - full of the spirit;  1 Kings 3:11 - discern;  1 Kings 5:7 - a wise son;  1 Kings 7:7 - of judgment;  1 Kings 10:24 - which God;  2 Kings 2:9 - Elisha said;  2 Kings 15:5 - judging;  1 Chronicles 11:2 - ruler;  2 Chronicles 32:4 - find;  Job 28:12 - GeneralPsalm 119:66 - Teach me;  Proverbs 1:2 - GeneralProverbs 2:6 - the Lord;  Proverbs 8:15 - decree;  Proverbs 18:15 - GeneralProverbs 25:2 - the honour;  Ecclesiastes 10:10 - wisdom;  Isaiah 11:3 - and he shall not;  Daniel 9:12 - our judges;  Matthew 12:42 - hear;  Romans 16:19 - yet;  1 Corinthians 3:10 - as a;  Colossians 3:16 - all

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.
Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman you put here with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I ate it."
Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
Genesis 3:12
And the man said: 'The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.'
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
Genesis 3:12
And Adam said: The woman whom thou gauest [to be] with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I dyd eate.
Genesis 3:12
Then the man saide, The woman which thou gauest to be with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I did eate.
Genesis 3:12
And Adam said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the fruit of the tree, and I did eat.
Genesis 3:12
The man answered, "The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:12
And God said to him, Who told thee that thou wast naked, unless thou hast eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it alone not to eat?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people,.... Not an understanding of things spiritual, nor of things natural, though both were given him, but of things political, what related to the civil government, that he might be able to judge or rule the people of Israel in the best manner:

that I may discern between good and bad; not merely between moral good and evil, of which he had a discernment; but between right and wrong in any case or controversy that came before him between man and man, that so he might be able to pass a right sentence, and do justice to every one:

for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? who are so very numerous, and have so many causes to be heard and and those many of them very intricate and difficult; so that no man is equal to such arduous work, unless he has more than an ordinary capacity given him by the Lord.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

One of the chief functions of the Oriental monarch is always to hear and decide causes. Hence, supreme magistrates were naturally called “judges.” (See the introduction to the Book of Judges.) In the minds of the Jews the “judge” and the “prince” were always closely associated, the direct cognisance of causes being constantly taken by their chief civil governors. (See Exodus 2:14; Exodus 18:16, Exodus 18:22; 1 Samuel 8:20; 2 Samuel 15:2-6.)

Good and bad - i. e. “right and wrong,” “justice and injustice.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Give - an understanding heart to judge thy people - He did not ask wisdom in general, but the true science of government. This wisdom he sought, and this wisdom he obtained.


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