1 Kings 3:9

Modern English Version

Give Your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge among so great a people?”

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:17

“So, your servant thought, ‘May the word of my lord the king provide rest. For like the angel of God, my lord the king discerns good from evil. May the Lord your God be with you.’ ”

1 Kings 10:24

All the earth came to Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

1 Kings 3:10

It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.

1 Kings 3:28

All Israel heard of the king’s judgment, and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to execute sound judgment.

1 Chronicles 22:12

Only may the Lord give you insight and understanding and give you charge over Israel so you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

1 Chronicles 29:19

Grant to Solomon my son a whole heart to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies, and Your statutes, to do all these things and to build the palace for which I have made preparation.”

2 Chronicles 1:10

Now give wisdom and knowledge to me so that I might know how to go before this people, for who can judge this great people of Yours?”

Psalm 119:144

The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting; give me understanding that I may live.

Psalm 119:34

Give me understanding, so that I may keep Your law, and observe it with my whole heart.

Psalm 119:73

Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to consider his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding than silver!

Proverbs 20:12

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is good as an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives the wise person more strength than ten rulers who are in the city.

Jeremiah 1:6

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.”

Jeremiah 45:5

And are you seeking great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For behold, I will bring disaster upon all flesh, says the Lord, but I will give you your life as spoils of war in every place, wherever you go.”

Daniel 2:21

It is He who changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who know understanding.

Matthew 3:11

“I indeed baptize you with water to repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Matthew 3:14

But John prohibited Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?”

John 5:30

I can do nothing of Myself. As I hear, I judge. My judgment is just, because I seek not My own will, but the will of the Father who sent Me.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To the one we are the fragrance of death, which brings death, and to the other the fragrance of life, which brings life. Who is sufficient for these things?

2 Corinthians 3:5

not that we are sufficient in ourselves to take credit for anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Philippians 1:10

that you may approve things that are excellent so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food belongs to those who are mature, for those who through practice have powers of discernment that are trained to distinguish good from evil.

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally and without criticism, and it will be given to him.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.