Missed Connection (1)

So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?”  1 Kings 3:9  NIV Right and wrong – The translators of the NIV completely ignore the Hebrew connection between Solomon and Adam.  I suspect it is deliberate.  The Hebrew text…

King of Kings

So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?” 1 Kings 3:9 NASB Who is able – Answer the question. Solomon asked it. You answer it. Who is able to judge? The answer, of course, is the one…

What Did He Hear?

So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?” 1 Kings 3:9 NASB Understanding – Solomon asks for a heart that hears. He wants to know what God knows. So do we (might I add, unfortunately) because we…