Discovery Box1 Kings 3:9 
Context3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind 1 so he can make judicial decisions for 2 your people and distinguish right from wrong. 3 Otherwise 4 no one is able 5 to make judicial decisions for 6 this great nation of yours.” 7
1 Kings 3:28
Context3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected 8 the king, for they realized 9 that he possessed supernatural wisdom 10 to make judicial decisions.
1 Kings 3:11
Context3:11 God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies, 11
1 Kings 7:7
Context7:7 He also made a throne room, called “The Hall of Judgment,” where he made judicial decisions. 12 It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters. 13
1 tn Heb “a hearing heart.” (The Hebrew term translated “heart” often refers to the mental faculties.)
2 tn Heb “to judge.”
3 tn Heb “to understand between good and evil.”
4 tn Heb “for”; the word “otherwise” is used to reflect the logical sense of the statement.
5 tn Heb “who is able?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “no one.”
6 tn Heb “to judge.”
7 tn Heb “your numerous people.”
8 tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”
9 tn Heb “saw.”
10 tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”
11 tn Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for yourself understanding to hear judgment.”
12 tn Heb “and a porch for the throne, where he was making judicial decisions, the Porch of Judgment, he made.”
13 tc The Hebrew text reads, “from the floor to the floor.” The second occurrence of the term הַקַּרְקָע (haqqarqa’, “the floor”) is probably an error; one should emend to הַקּוֹרוֹת (haqqorot, “the rafters”). See 6:16.
