1 Kings 3:8-10

English Standard Version

^8 (A)And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, ^(B)too many to be numbered or counted for multitude. ^9 (C)Give your servant therefore an understanding mind ^(D)to govern your people, that I may ^(E)discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”

¹⁰ It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.