1 Kings 3:8-10

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⁸ And your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a great people so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted.^{(A) 9} Give your servant, therefore, an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil, for who can govern this great people of yours?”^(B)

¹⁰ It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.