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And Solomon went up thither to the brazen altar, before the tabernacle of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up on it a thousand victims.
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And behold that night God appeared to him, saying: Ask what thou wilt that I should give thee.
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And Solomon said to God: Thou hast shewn great kindness to my father David: and hast made me king in his stead.
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Now therefore, O Lord God, let thy word be fulfilled, which thou hast promised to David my father: for thou hast made me king over thy great people, which is as innumerable as the dust of the earth.
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Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go out before thy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people, which is so great?