“Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. “Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted. “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 3:7-9
It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice, behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you.
1 Kings 3:10-12
Give to your servant a listeningheart to judge your people, to discern between good and bad, because who is able to judge this, your difficult people?”
1 Kings 3:9 (LEB)
But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone.
1 Samuel 25:37
And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between his arms; and the arrow went through his heart and he sank in his chariot.
2 Kings 9:24
Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning, and he prepared to go; and the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Sustain yourself with a piece of bread, and afterward you may go.”
Judges 19:5
“Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
Deuteronomy 8:5
Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat and why is your heart sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
1 Samuel 1:8
When Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain; and she came secretly, and uncovered his feet and lay down.
Ruth 3:7
Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.
Jeremiah 15:16
Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4
“Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
1 Kings 8:17
I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.
Job 27:6 (NET)
It came about afterward that David’s conscience bothered him because he had cut off the edge of Saul’s robe.
1 Samuel 24:5
The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The LORD has made both of them.
Proverbs 20:12
Then she conceived again and bore a son and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also.” So she named him Simeon.
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice, And be gracious to me and answer me.
Psalm 27:7
‘Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine
Exodus 19:5
‘Go near and hear all that the LORD our God says; then speak to us all that the LORD our God speaks to you, and we will hear and do it.’
“The LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
‘Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, that it may be well with them and with their sons forever!
Deuteronomy 5:27-29
