9. Give your servant, therefore, a listening heart to judge your people and to distinguish between good and evil. For who is able to give judgment for this vast people of yours?”
10. The Lord was pleased by Solomon’s request.
11. So God said to him: Because you asked for this—you did not ask for a long life for yourself, nor for riches, nor for the life of your enemies—but you asked for discernment to know what is right—
12. I now do as you request. I give you a heart so wise and discerning that there has never been anyone like you until now, nor after you will there be anyone to equal you.
13. In addition, I give you what you have not asked for: I give you such riches and glory that among kings there will be no one like you all your days.
14. And if you walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and commandments, as David your father did, I will give you a long life.
15. Solomon awoke; it was a dream! He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, sacrificed burnt offerings and communion offerings, and gave a feast for all his servants.