Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’

Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

“For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”

And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,

And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.

Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.

Only, may the Lord grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, being a man of understanding and a scribe. He and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni attended the king's sons.

Hiram also said, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, who has discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.

“Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi,

The Obligations of the Covenant

“The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,

Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?

and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born a man!

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

“With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless waste.

Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.

I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.

“But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

“From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?