3. Then Solomon, accompanied by the whole assembly, went to the shrine at Gibeon because that is where God’s meeting tent was, the tent that the Lord’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness.
4. Now David had already brought God’s chest from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it because he had pitched a tent for the chest in Jerusalem.
5. But the bronze altar that Bezalel, Uri’s son and Hur’s grandson, had made was there in front of the Lord’s dwelling, so that is where Solomon and the assembly worshipped.
6. Solomon went there to the bronze altar in the Lord’s presence at the meeting tent and offered a thousand entirely burned offerings upon it.
7. That night God appeared to Solomon and said, "Ask whatever you wish, and I will give it to you."
8. "You showed so much kindness to my father David," Solomon replied to God, "and you have made me king in his place.
9. Now, Lord God, let your promise to my father David be fulfilled because you have made me king over a people as numerous as the earth’s dust.
10. Give me wisdom and knowledge so I can lead this people, because no one can govern this great people of yours without your help."