8. Your servant is among Your people You have chosen, a people too numerous to be numbered or counted.
9. So give Your servant an obedient heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours? ”
10. Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had requested this.
11. So God said to him, “Because you have requested this and did not ask for long life or riches for yourself, or the death of your enemies, but you asked discernment for yourself to understand justice,