5. Yahweh appeared to Solomon at Gibeon in a dream at night, and God said, “Ask what I should give to you.”
6. Then Solomon said, “You have shown great loyal love with your servant David my father, as he walked before you in faithfulness and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. You have shown for him this great loyal love, and you have given a son to him who is sitting on his throne as it is this day.
7. So then, O Yahweh, you are my God. You have made your servant king in place of David my father though I am a young boy. I do not know going out or coming in.
8. Your servant is in the middle of your people whom you have chosen; a great people who cannot be counted or numbered because of abundance.
9. Give to your servant a listening heart to judge your people, to discern between good and bad, because who is able to judge this, your difficult people?”
10. The word was good in the eyes of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.
11. And God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing and you did not ask for yourself a long life and you did not ask riches for yourself and you did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you have asked for yourself the ability to make wise judgments;
12. behold, I do hereby do according to your word. I hereby give you a wise and discerning heart; there was no one like you before you, nor afterwards will one like you arise.