1 Kings 4:29

Modern English Version

God gave Solomon wisdom and great depth of understanding as well as compassion, as vast as the sand on the seashore.

Cross References

Genesis 41:49

Joseph gathered great quantities of grain as the sand of the sea until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

1 Kings 3:12

behold, I now do according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart, so that there has never been anyone like you in the past, and there shall never arise another like you.

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 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel had a large populace, as numerous as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.

Psalm 119:32

I will run the way of Your commandments, for You shall enlarge my heart.

Psalm 119:34

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

Proverbs 2:6

For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Ecclesiastes 1:16

I spoke in my heart saying, “I have been great and increased in wisdom more than anyone else who has been before me in Jerusalem, and my heart has observed great wisdom and knowledge.”

Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the person who is pleasing before Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the one who sins, He gives the task to gather and collect, to give to the other person who is pleasing before God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Isaiah 60:5

Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and rejoice because the abundance of the sea shall be converted to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites that minister to Me.

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.

Habakkuk 1:9

They all come for violence; their forces advance like the east wind. They gather captives like sand.

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.

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.

Judges 7:12

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the Kedemites covered the valley like locusts; and their camels could not be counted, for they were as numerous as grains of sand on the seashore.