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Biblia Przekład Toruński

I Księga Królewska 3:12

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Bible Study Resources

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;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Otom ja uczynił dosyć słowu twemu, a dałem ci rozum stateczny i mądrość, tak iż żaden przed tym nie był ci równy, ani po tobie będzie.
Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Otożem uczynił według słów twoich; otom ci dał serce mądre i rozumne, tak, iż żaden równy tobie nie był przed tobą, ani po tobie powstanie równy tobie.
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
to spełnię twoją prośbę. Oto daję ci mądre i rozumne serce. Takiego, jak ty, jeszcze nie było przed tobą ani taki, jak ty, nie powstanie po tobie.
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
oto uczynię według twojego słowa; dam ci mądre i rozumne serce, takie, że podobnego do ciebie nie było przed tobą, ani nie powstanie po tobie.
Biblia Tysiąclecia
Otożem uczynił według słów twoich; otom ci dał serce mądre i rozumne, tak, iż żaden równy tobie nie był przed tobą, ani po tobie powstanie równy tobie.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Oto uczyniłem według twoich słów: Dałem ci serce mądre i rozumne, tak że podobnego tobie nie było przed tobą ani po tobie nie powstanie nikt jak ty.
Biblia Warszawska
Przeto uczynię zgodnie z twoim życzeniem: Oto daję ci serce mądre i rozumne, że takiego jak ty jeszcze nie było przez tobą i takiego jak ty również po tobie nie będzie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have done: Psalms 10:17, Isaiah 65:24, Romans 8:26, Romans 8:27, 1 John 5:14, 1 John 5:15

I have given: 1 Kings 3:28, 1 Kings 2:6, 1 Kings 2:9, 1 Kings 4:29-34, 1 Kings 5:12, 1 Kings 10:3-8, 1 Kings 10:23, 1 Kings 10:24, 2 Chronicles 1:11, 2 Chronicles 1:12, 2 Chronicles 2:12, 2 Chronicles 9:5-8, Ecclesiastes 1:13, Ecclesiastes 1:16, 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 Psalms 119:173 - for Proverbs 2:6 - the Lord Proverbs 16:21 - wise Ecclesiastes 2:9 - General Ecclesiastes 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

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

Verse 1 Kings 3:12. 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 fulfilment 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, c., &c.! 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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