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I’m among your people whom you have chosen. They are too numerous to count or record. Give me a heart that listens so that I can judge your people and tell the difference between good and evil. After all, who can judge this great people of yours?”

10 Adonay[a] was pleased that Solomon asked for this.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 3:10 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Greek; other Hebrew manuscripts “Lord.”

Your servant is here among the people you have chosen,(A) a great people, too numerous to count or number.(B) So give your servant a discerning(C) heart to govern your people and to distinguish(D) between right and wrong. For who is able(E) to govern this great people of yours?”

10 The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this.

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