1 Kings 3

2. Beg of God that he will give you a heart to love him. When King Solomon asked wisdom of God, the speech pleased the Lord (1 Kings 3:10). So when you cry to God, Lord give me a heart to love you, it is my grief I can love you no more.

God would have us learn to go without crutches. Use 2. If God be infinitely wise, then let us go to him for wisdom; as Solomon (1 Kings 3:9). Give your servant an understanding heart, and the speech pleased the Lord; and there is encouragement for us.

(Matthew 12:50) Whoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. Did King Solomon arise off his throne to meet his mother, and set her on a throne by him, (1 Kings 3:19) such honor will Christ bestow on such as are doers…

In the Church of Solomon's time four passages are chiefly observable. First, Solomon's choice of heavenly wisdom, by which chiefly we enjoy sweet and familiar fellowship with God (1 Kings 3:5–10). This is expressed, verse 2.

This, David does: for being put to choose, whether he had rather live in safe-guard, and in solace, with the wicked and ungodly; than in base estate, and in great danger, near to God's sanctuary: He says, Psalm 84:10, He had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of his God, than t…

Solomon (the type of Christ) was the beloved of God (2 Samuel 12:24) and had his name from this (namely Jedidiah, that is, beloved of the Lord). And to show how beloved he was, God when he came first to his kingdom bade him ask what he should give him (1 Kings 3:5). Now the like…

And from there is this form or phrase of speaking borrowed, which is very usual and often in the Scriptures. One history thereof we have in (1 Kings 3), where it is declared, how two women contended before King Solomon, for a young infant, whose it should be, for either of them…

By moving of the bowels (or sounding, or making a noise, as the word is elsewhere translated, Isaiah 10:11 and 63:15) is understood a sensible stirring of the affections, when they begin to stound, and that kindly, and in a most affectionate manner, either severally, or jointly,…

Use. Well, do we serve God, and seek after God with the whole heart? The natural mother had rather part with the whole than to see the child divided (1 Kings 3:26). God had rather part with the whole than take a piece.

2 Use. In the sincerity of your hearts go to God for his teaching. 1. God is pleased with the request (1 Kings 3:9-10). Give therefore your servant an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge this your so great a…

Second, it reproves those that do not give God the whole heart, for he requires that, and surely all is too little for so great and so good a master. God will have the heart, so that no part of it be [reconstructed: left] for others, or for ourselves to dispose of as we will: th…

Fear not therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows. The reasoning is good, if he has mercy for kites, he has also for children; who are not only in a higher rank of creatures, but in a renewed estate, and reconciled to him by Christ become his friends and children, who…

There are some divines who understand the place wholly or principally of hard matters and controversies about the second Table, so Luther upon the place laboring to free it from the corrupt interpretation and sense put upon it by the Papists, says, Moses does here deal not conce…

Septuagint: [in non-Latin alphabet]. (1 Kings 3:7): You have made your servant to reign in the room of David my father. Septuagint: [in non-Latin alphabet].

Now the several officers with their distinct employments, in and about this service, were so punctually prescribed, and limited by Almighty God, that as none of them might [illegible] without presumptuous impiety, intrude into the function of others, not allotted to them, as (Nu…