Does God know everything, or does he have to find things out?

God knows David’s sitting and rising, understands his thoughts “afar off”, and knows every word before it is spoken.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

The apostles pray to the Lord, “which knowest the hearts of all men”.

And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,

God will go down to see whether Sodom has done as its outcry says, “and if not, I will know”.

And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

After Adam hides, “the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?”

And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

The wilderness years humbled and tested Israel “to know what was in thine heart”.

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

After Abraham’s test: “now I know that thou fearest God”.

And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.