1 Rois 3:12

12 voici, j'agirai selon ta parole. Je te donnerai un coeur sage et intelligent, de telle sorte qu'il n'y aura eu personne avant toi et qu'on ne verra jamais personne de semblable à toi.

1 Rois 3:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 3:12

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 1 Kings 4:31 ) ; 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 ) ( Colossians 2:3 ) .

1 Rois 3:12 In-Context

10 Cette demande de Salomon plut au Seigneur.

11 Et Dieu lui dit: Puisque c'est là ce que tu demandes, puisque tu ne demandes pour toi ni une longue vie, ni les richesses, ni la mort de tes ennemis, et que tu demandes de l'intelligence pour exercer la justice,

12 voici, j'agirai selon ta parole. Je te donnerai un coeur sage et intelligent, de telle sorte qu'il n'y aura eu personne avant toi et qu'on ne verra jamais personne de semblable à toi.

13 Je te donnerai, en outre, ce que tu n'as pas demandé, des richesses et de la gloire, de telle sorte qu'il n'y aura pendant toute ta vie aucun roi qui soit ton pareil.

14 Et si tu marches dans mes voies, en observant mes lois et mes commandements, comme l'a fait David, ton père, je prolongerai tes jours.