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Eyes, Jim Jordan constantly points out, are organs of judgment. God \u201csees\u201d the light and judges it good, and His eyes are open to judge the righteous and the wicked (Ps 11). <\/p>\n
1 Kings 3, however, seems to make some play with this. Solomon is asking for discernment and wisdom to \u201cjudge,\u201d but instead of asking for \u201ceyes\u201d to judge, he asks for a new heart, a heart that \u201chears\u201d (the Heb is SHEMA in v 9). When Yahweh hears this request, He finds it \u201cgood in his eyes\u201d (v 10). Yahweh judges by the eyes, but Solomon knows that he can judge only by discerning hearing. <\/p>\n
This doesn\u2019t undermine Jordan\u2019s point about eyes, but seems to qualify it a bit. Yahweh judges with eyes, since all things are open to His sight. Not everything is open to our sight, and we can plumb hidden depths and pass righteous judgment only if we do NOT judge by what we see but judge by careful listening. (Isaiah 11:3 makes a further move, by saying that the Messiah will judge righteously, and this in contrast to judging by what he sees AND hears.) <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eyes, Jim Jordan constantly points out, are organs of judgment. God \u201csees\u201d the light and judges it good, and His eyes are open to judge the righteous and the wicked (Ps 11). 1 Kings 3, however, seems to make some play with this. Solomon is asking for discernment and wisdom to \u201cjudge,\u201d but instead of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-ot-kings"],"yoast_head":"\n