So (A)give Your servant [a]an understanding heart to judge Your people, (B)to discern between good and evil. For who is capable of judging this [b]great people of Yours?”

God’s Answer

10 Now [c]it was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 3:9 Or a heart that listens
  2. 1 Kings 3:9 Lit heavy
  3. 1 Kings 3:10 Lit the thing was

29 Now (A)God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of [a]mind, (B)like the sand that is on the seashore.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 4:29 Lit heart

But if any of you (A)lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and [a]without reproach, and (B)it will be given to him.

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Footnotes

  1. James 1:5 Lit does not reproach

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