8. Your servant is in the middle of your people whom you have chosen; a great people who cannot be counted or numbered because of abundance.
9. Give to your servant a listening heart to judge your people, to discern between good and bad, because who is able to judge this, your difficult people?”
10. The word was good in the eyes of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.
11. And God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing and you did not ask for yourself a long life and you did not ask riches for yourself and you did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you have asked for yourself the ability to make wise judgments;
12. behold, I do hereby do according to your word. I hereby give you a wise and discerning heart; there was no one like you before you, nor afterwards will one like you arise.
13. Too, what you have not asked I give to you: both riches and honor, so that no man among the kings will be like you all of your days.
14. If you will walk in my ways by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David your father walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
15. Then Solomon awoke, and look, it was a dream, and he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and he offered burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings, and he held a feast for all of his servants.