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5 the Lord appeared to him that night in a dream, and said to him, Ask for thyself any favour.
6 Thereupon Solomon said, Thou hast shewn great kindness to thy servant David my father. As he walked before thee in truth and righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee, thou therefore hast kept for him this great kindness to set his son on his throne as at this day.
7 Now therefore, Lord my God, as thou hast appointed me thy servant in the room of my father David, and I am but a little child and know not how to go out and come in,
8 and thy servant is in the midst of thy people whom thou hast chosen, an immense people which cannot be numbered,
9 give therefore to thy servant a heart to hear and to judge thy people righteously, and to discern between good and evil; for who can judge this thy people,
10 this great people which is so numerous? And it was well pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon made this request;