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Otherwise, how would I ever be able to rule this great people of yours?" </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/1_kings/3-9.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/1_kings/3-9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/1_kings/3-9.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_kings/1.htm">1 Kings</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_kings/3.htm">Chapter 3</a> > Verse 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/3-8.htm" title="1 Kings 3:8">◄</a> 1 Kings 3:9 <a href="../1_kings/3-10.htm" title="1 Kings 3:10">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/1_kings/3.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/1_kings/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />So give me the wisdom I need to rule your people with justice and to know the difference between good and evil. Otherwise, how would I ever be able to rule this great people of yours?" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_kings/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people?”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/1_kings/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Please make me wise and teach me the difference between right and wrong. Then I will know how to rule your people. If you don't, there is no way I could rule this great nation of yours. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_kings/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Give your servant, therefore, a listening heart to judge your people and to distinguish between good and evil. For who is able to give judgment for this vast people of yours?”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/1_kings/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to judge this people, thy people, which is so numerous?<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to judge this people, thy people, which is so numerous?</p><p class="hdg">Give therefore</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/22-12.htm">1 Chronicles 22:12</a> The Lord also give thee wisdom and understanding, that thou mayest be able to rule Israel, and to keep the law of the Lord thy God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/29-19.htm">1 Chronicles 29:19</a> And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, that he may keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy ceremonies, and do all things: and build the house, for which I have provided the charges.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/1-10.htm">2 Chronicles 1:10</a> Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go out before thy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people, which is so great?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/119-34.htm">Psalm 119:34,73,144</a> Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/2-3.htm">Proverbs 2:3-9</a> If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/3-13.htm">Proverbs 3:13-18</a> The purchasing thereof is better than the merchandise of silver, and her fruit than the chief and purest gold: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/16-16.htm">Proverbs 16:16</a> Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/1-5.htm">James 1:5</a> But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/3-17.htm">James 3:17</a> But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.</p><p class="hdg">understanding [heb] hearing</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/20-12.htm">Proverbs 20:12</a> The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.</p><p class="hdg">to judge</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_kings/3-28.htm">1 Kings 3:28</a> And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/72-1.htm">Psalm 72:1,2</a> A psalm on Solomon. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/14-8.htm">Proverbs 14:8</a> The wisdom of a discreet man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/7-11.htm">Ecclesiastes 7:11,19</a> Wisdom with riches is more profitable, and bringeth more advantage to them that see the sun. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ecclesiastes/9-15.htm">Ecclesiastes 9:15-18</a> Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/5-30.htm">John 5:30</a> I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just: because I seek not my own will. but the will of him that sent me.</p><p class="hdg">discern</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_samuel/14-17.htm">2 Samuel 14:17</a> Then let thy handmaid say, that the word of the Lord the king be made as a sacrifice. For even as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, that he is neither moved with blessing nor cursing: wherefore the Lord thy God is also with thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/11-2.htm">Isaiah 11:2-4</a> And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/2-14.htm">1 Corinthians 2:14,15</a> But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/5-17.htm">Ephesians 5:17</a> Wherefore, become not unwise: but understanding what is the will of God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../philippians/1-10.htm">Philippians 1:10</a> That you may approve the better things: that you may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hebrews/5-14.htm">Hebrews 5:14</a> But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.</p><p class="hdg">who is able</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/3-11.htm">Exodus 3:11,12</a> And Moses said to God: Who am I that I should go to Pharao, and should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/4-10.htm">Exodus 4:10-13</a> Moses said: I beseech thee, Lord, I am not eloquent from yesterday and the day before; and since thou hast spoken to thy servant, I have more impediment and slowness of tongue. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/1-6.htm">Jeremiah 1:6</a> And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/3-11.htm">Matthew 3:11,14</a> I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/2-16.htm">2 Corinthians 2:16</a> To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/3-5.htm">2 Corinthians 3:5</a> Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/1_kings/3.htm">Solomon's Prayer for Wisdom</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">8</span>And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast chosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl">Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil. For who shall be able to judge this people, thy people, which is so numerous?</span><div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hebrews/5-14.htm">Hebrews 5:14</a></span><br />But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../james/1-5.htm">James 1:5</a></span><br />But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_samuel/14-17.htm">2 Samuel 14:17</a></span><br />Then let thy handmaid say, that the word of the Lord the king be made as a sacrifice. For even as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, that he is neither moved with blessing nor cursing: wherefore the Lord thy God is also with thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_kings/3-10.htm">1 Kings 3:10</a></span><br />And the word was pleasing to the Lord, that Solomon had asked such a thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_kings/3-28.htm">1 Kings 3:28</a></span><br />And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_kings/10-24.htm">1 Kings 10:24</a></span><br />And all the earth desired to see Solomon's face, to hear his wisdom, which God had given in his heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/22-12.htm">1 Chronicles 22:12</a></span><br />The Lord also give thee wisdom and understanding, that thou mayest be able to rule Israel, and to keep the law of the Lord thy God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/1-10.htm">2 Chronicles 1:10</a></span><br />Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go out before thy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people, which is so great?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/72-1.htm">Psalm 72:1</a></span><br />A psalm on Solomon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/72-2.htm">Psalm 72:2</a></span><br />Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king's son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/2-3.htm">Proverbs 2:3</a></span><br />If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/45-5.htm">Jeremiah 45:5</a></span><br />And dost thou seek great things for thyself? Seek not: for behold I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord! but I will give thee thy life, and save thee in all places whithersoever thou shalt go.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../daniel/2-21.htm">Daniel 2:21</a></span><br />And he changeth times and ages: taketh away kingdoms, and establisheth them: giveth wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that have understanding:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_samuel/22-39.htm">Able</a> <a href="/2_samuel/19-35.htm">Bad</a> <a href="/2_samuel/19-35.htm">Discern</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/1-13.htm">Discerning</a> <a href="/leviticus/11-47.htm">Distinguish</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-44.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-42.htm">Good</a> <a href="/1_samuel/9-17.htm">Govern</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-8.htm">Great</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-6.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-27.htm">Judge</a> <a href="/2_samuel/8-15.htm">Judging</a> <a href="/2_samuel/19-19.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-8.htm">Numerous</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-19.htm">Right</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-8.htm">Servant</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-3.htm">Understanding</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-9.htm">Wise</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-44.htm">Wrong</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_kings/5-3.htm">Able</a> <a href="/1_kings/22-18.htm">Bad</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-11.htm">Discern</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-12.htm">Discerning</a> <a href="/ezra/3-13.htm">Distinguish</a> <a href="/1_kings/5-4.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-10.htm">Good</a> <a href="/1_kings/21-7.htm">Govern</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-13.htm">Great</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-12.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-7.htm">Judge</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-7.htm">Judging</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-12.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-20.htm">Numerous</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-11.htm">Right</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-20.htm">Servant</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-11.htm">Understanding</a> <a href="/1_kings/3-12.htm">Wise</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-31.htm">Wrong</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_kings/3-9.htm">1 Kings 3:9 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_kings/3-9.htm">1 Kings 3:9 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_kings/3-9.htm">1 Kings 3:9 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_kings/3-9.htm">1 Kings 3:9 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_kings/3-9.htm">1 Kings 3:9 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_kings/3-9.htm">1 Kings 3:9 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_kings/3-9.htm">1 Kings 3:9 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_kings/3-9.htm">1 Kings 3:9 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/1_kings/3-9.htm">1 Kings 3:9 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a able an and between discern discerning distinguish evil For give good govern great heart is judge of people right servant So this to understanding who wrong your yours<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_kings/3-9.htm">OT History: 1 Kings 3:9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_kings/3-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 3:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 3:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_kings/3-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 3:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 3:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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