God Gives Wisdom to Solomon

⁶ Then Solomon said, “^(A)You have shown great lovingkindness to Your slave David my father, ^(B)according to how he walked before You in ^[a]truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You; and ^(C)You have kept for him this great lovingkindness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

^14 (A)Now if you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will ^(B)prolong your days.”

⁴ Now it happened at the time that Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and ^(A)his heart was not ^[a]wholly devoted to Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

⁶ And Solomon did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and did not follow Yahweh fully, as David his father had done.

⁸ Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.