1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
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10Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord.
Cross References
Exodus 3:11And Moses said to God, Who am I to go to Pharaoh and take the children of Israel out of Egypt?
2 Samuel 14:17Then your servant said, May the word of my lord the king give me peace! for my lord the king is as the angel of God in his hearing of good and bad: and may the Lord your God be with you!
1 Kings 10:24And from all over the earth they came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
1 Chronicles 29:19And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready.
Psalms 72:1Of Solomon. Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.
Psalms 119:73JOD Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 3:6-16
God's Appearance to Solomon. ( b. c. 1014.) 5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. 6 And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 7 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king… Read the whole commentary →