1 Kings 3:8-10

New Catholic Bible

⁸ Your servant is among the people you have chosen, a great people. There are so many of them that they cannot be numbered or counted. ⁹ Therefore, give your servant a discerning heart to judge your people and to distinguish between what is good and what is bad, for who would be able to judge this, your great people?”

¹⁰ It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked for this.