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God's relationships with Salomon differ from those which connected with God his father David. The last was a prophet, and the prophetic experience was the basis of all his spiritual life. Unlike his father, Salomon was not a prophet. But he doubtless had an experience of communion with God, although not the same as with David. That is probably why Salomon asks God above all for wisdom. He understands perfectly that he is still too young to possess the necessary experience to run the country. And he is aware of this fact and has full confidence in God, Who, as was convinced Salomon, having made him king, will give him the wisdom to fulfill this mission.

Such a confidence in God in certain cases incites God to call the one who had so confidence in Him to the prophetic ministry. But in this present case, nothing happened, maybe, because the people of God in particular at that moment did not need a prophet on the throne, but rather needed such man as Salomon, who was a skillful, decisive and at the same time careful politician and also a reforming king, being in state to create on the place of a tribal patriarchal State, a modern State according to the norms of his time.

And not accidentally Salomon asks to God specially for wisdom: because under wisdom at his time, they did not understand simply abstract knowledge or general education, but first of all, capacity to establish relationships with people and manage his own house, and, if it is necessary, the whole country. And Salomon copes with the task put before him: because God never leaves those who turn to Him with full confidence and with the desire to fulfill His will.