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1 Kings 3:12
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I have done: Psalms 10:17, Isaiah 65:24, Romans 8:26, Romans 8:27, 1 John 5:14, 1 John 5:15
I have given: 1 Kings 3:28, 1 Kings 2:6, 1 Kings 2:9, 1 Kings 4:29-34, 1 Kings 5:12, 1 Kings 10:3-8, 1 Kings 10:23, 1 Kings 10:24, 2 Chronicles 1:11, 2 Chronicles 1:12, 2 Chronicles 2:12, 2 Chronicles 9:5-8, Ecclesiastes 1:13, Ecclesiastes 1:16, Luke 21:15
neither: Matthew 12:42, Colossians 2:3
Reciprocal: Exodus 31:6 - wise hearted Exodus 35:35 - he filled Deuteronomy 34:9 - full of the spirit 1 Kings 4:31 - wiser 2 Chronicles 9:2 - there 2 Chronicles 9:22 - passed all the kings Job 32:8 - the inspiration Psalms 119:173 - for Proverbs 2:6 - the Lord Proverbs 16:21 - wise Ecclesiastes 2:9 - General Ecclesiastes 2:15 - even to me Ecclesiastes 7:23 - I said Daniel 1:17 - God James 1:5 - any James 3:17 - the wisdom 2 Peter 3:15 - according
Cross-References
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."
And Yahweh God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make a matching helper for him.
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."
The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."
And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone: I will make him a help meet for him.
Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
Now the LORD God said, "It is not good (beneficial) for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper [one who balances him—a counterpart who is] suitable and complementary for him."
And the Lord God seide, It is not good that a man be aloone, make we to hym an help lijk to hym silf.
And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'
The LORD God also said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, I have done according to thy words,.... Expressed in his request: he not only promised he would grant him it, but he had already done it, or at least had begun to do it:
lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; had greatly increased his wisdom and understanding in things political, things respecting civil government, and also in things natural, in the knowledge of the things of nature as appears from 1 Kings 4:33; and of the arts and sciences:
so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee: which some restrain to kings, and to the kings of Israel; that there were none of the kings before him, as Saul and David, like him for wisdom, nor any of the kings of Judah and Israel after him; but it may include all men of all nations in the world, since he is said to be wiser than all men; and some other nations, and particular men of other nations, famous for wisdom, are expressly mentioned as inferior to him, 1 Kings 4:30; but then this must be understood of men since the fall; for Adam, doubtless, had a larger stock of knowledge and understanding in his state of innocence than ever Solomon had; and it must be restrained to political and natural knowledge; for, as for divine knowledge, Kimchi excepts Moses; and we may well except the apostles of Christ for spiritual and evangelical knowledge; and as for our Lord, the antitype of Solomon, he is greater than him in all kind of knowledge, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge being hid in him, see Matthew 12:42.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A wise and an understanding heart - Solomonâs wisdom seems to have been both moral and intellectual (see 1 Kings 4:29-34). But it was moral wisdom alone which he requested, and which was promised him. The terms translated âwiseâ and âunderstanding,â both denote practical wisdom. (See Genesis 41:33, Genesis 41:39; Deuteronomy 4:6; Proverbs 1:2, etc.)
Neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee - i. e. in the knowledge of what was in man, and in the wisdom to direct menâs goings, he was to be the wisest of âallâ mere men. In such wisdom the world would know one only âgreater than Solomonâ Matthew 12:42; Luke 11:31.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Kings 3:12. I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart — I have given thee a capacious mind, one capable of knowing much: make a proper use of thy powers, under the direction of my Spirit, and thou shalt excel in wisdom all that have gone before thee; neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. But, query, Was not all this conditional? If he should walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and commandments, 1 Kings 3:14. Was it not to depend upon his proper use of initiatory inspirations? Did he ever receive all this wisdom? Did not his unfaithfulness prevent the fulfilment of the Divine purpose? Instead of being the wisest of men, did he not become more brutish than any man? Did he not even lose the knowledge of his Creator, and worship the abominations of the Moabites, Zidonians, c., &c.! And was not such idolatry a proof of the grossest stupidity? How few proofs does his life give that the gracious purpose of God was fulfilled in him! He received much but he would have received much more, had he been faithful to the grace given. No character in the sacred writings disappoints us more than the character of Solomon.
None like thee before thee — That is, no king, either in Israel or among the nations, as the following verse explains.
