1. Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, the Lord’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.
2. However the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the Lord’s name.
3. Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
4. The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
5. In Gibeon, the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”
6. Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
7. Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.
8. Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.