“O Lord, my God, you have made me, your servant, king to succeed my father David; but I am a mere youth, not knowing at all how to act.”

“I serve you in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a people so vast that it cannot be numbered or counted.”

“Give your servant, therefore, an understanding heart to judge your people and to distinguish right from wrong.”

“For who is able to govern this vast people of yours?”

—Kings 3:5,7-12