1 Kings 3:14

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁵One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, "Ask, and I will give it to you!" ⁶Solomon replied, "You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day. ⁷And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David's place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in. ⁸Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number. ⁹Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?" ¹⁰Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had made this request. ¹¹So God said to him, "Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies-but you have asked for discernment to administer justice- ¹²behold, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. ¹³Moreover, I will give you what you did not request-both riches and honor-so that during all your days no man in any kingdom will be your equal. ¹⁴So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, then I will prolong your days."

Bible Verse Review
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if thou: 1 Kings 2:3, 1 Kings 2:4, 1 Chronicles 22:12, 1 Chronicles 22:13, 1 Chronicles 28:9, 2 Chronicles 7:17-19, Psalms 132:12, Zechariah 3:7

as thy: 1 Kings 3:3, 1 Kings 9:4, 1 Kings 9:5, 1 Kings 15:5, 2 Chronicles 17:3, 2 Chronicles 17:4, 2 Chronicles 29:2, 2 Chronicles 34:2, Acts 13:22

I will lengthen: Deuteronomy 5:16, Deuteronomy 25:15, Psalms 21:4, Psalms 91:16, Proverbs 3:2, Proverbs 3:16, 1 Timothy 4:8

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:12 - if thou wilt 1 Kings 11:33 - they have forsaken 1 Kings 11:38 - if thou wilt 1 Kings 14:8 - my servant David 1 Kings 15:3 - and his heart 2 Kings 16:2 - did not 2 Kings 18:3 - according

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat of any tree in the garden?'"

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

Genesis 3:20
And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Leviticus 20:25
You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

Psalms 72:9
May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

Isaiah 29:4
You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.

Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will do no harm nor destruction on all My holy mountain," says the LORD.

Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if thou wilt walk in my ways,.... Prescribed and directed to in his word,

to keep my statutes and my commandments; ceremonial, moral, and judicial:

as thy father David did walk; which Solomon himself had observed, 1 Kings 3:6; and whose walk was worthy of his imitation:

then I will lengthen thy days; the other promises of riches and honour are absolute, but this of long life conditional, depending upon his holy walk and conversation; and hence, because he failed in this the Jews observe he did not attain to long life, dying, as they suppose, at fifty two years of age; which is grounded on a wrong hypothesis, that he was but twelve years of age when he he began to reign, and he reigned forty years, as before observed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will lengthen thy days - The promise here was only conditional. As the condition was not observed 1 Kings 11:1-8, the right to the promise was forfeited, and it was not fulfilled. Solomon can scarcely have been more than fifty-nine or sixty at his death.