1 Kings 3:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Solomon said, i.e. he dreamed that he said. See Poole on "1 Kings 3:5". Or, he really said. For although the use of reason is ordinarily so dark and imperfect in dreams, that such actings are not human actions; yet in extraordinary and Divine dreams it is but reasonable to allow something extraordinary. For who can doubt but God may so clear up and assist a man's reason in his dream, that he may have a true and strong apprehension of some things, which also may make a suitable impression upon the will or affections; and consequently such acts of the soul may be moral acts, and regardable by God and men? And this might be a kind of ecstatical rapture, whereby his soul might be as it were carried out of his body, as St. Paul's was, 2 Corinthians 12:3, for a season; in which case both his reason might clearly and distinctly apprehend God's mind, and his gracious offer; and his will might make a free choice of wisdom; which therefore might be accepted and rewarded by God. In truth; either, first, Sincerely, and without dissimulation. But that is more fully expressed in the following words, in uprightness of heart. Or rather, secondly, In the true worship and service of God, in the profession, belief, practice, and defence of the truth, or of the true religion, or of God's will or word, which is called truth, Proverbs 23:23 1 Thessalonians 17:17 Galatians 3:1. So truth here contains all his duties to God, as righteousness doth his duties to men, and uprightness the right manner of performing both sorts of duties. Uprightness of heart with thee, i.e. in thy judgment, to whom alone his heart was known; and to whom he oft appealed as the witness of his integrity; and with respect to whom he performed all his duties, even to men. Thou hast kept, or, reserved, that which thou didst not reserve for Saul, whose posterity thou didst cut off from the kingdom.