1 Kings 3:8-10

New American Standard Bible 1995

^8 (A)Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, ^(B)a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted. ⁹ So ^(C)give Your servant ^[a]an understanding heart to judge Your people ^(D)to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this ^[b]great people of Yours?”

God’s Answer

^10 [c]It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.