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1 Kings 3:8-12

1 Kings 3:8

And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted.

1 Kings 3:9

So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, to discern between good and evil. For who is capable of judging this great people of Yours?” God’s Answer

1 Kings 3:10

Now it was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.

1 Kings 3:11

And God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself a long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the lives of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice,

1 Kings 3:12

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.