⁹ So ^(A)give Your servant ^[a]an understanding heart to judge Your people, ^(B)to discern between good and evil. For who is capable of judging this ^[b]great people of Yours?”

¹² behold, ^(A)I have done according to your words. Behold, ^(B)I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you.

²⁸ When all Israel heard about the judgment which the king had ^[a]handed down, they feared the king, because ^(A)they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to ^[b]administer justice.