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Then Solomon
formed a marriage alliance
with Pharaoh
king
of Egypt,
and took
Pharaoh's
daughter
and brought
her to the city
of David
until
he had finished
building
his own house
and the house
of the LORD
and the wall
around
Jerusalem.
2
The people
were still
sacrificing
on the high places,
because
there was no
house
built
for the name
of the LORD
until
those
days.
3
Now Solomon
loved
the LORD,
walking
in the statutes
of his father
David,
except
he sacrificed
and burned incense
on the high places.
4
The king
went
to Gibeon
to sacrifice
there,
for that was the great
high place;
Solomon
offered
a thousand
burnt offerings
on that altar.
5
In Gibeon
the LORD
appeared
to Solomon
in a dream
at night;
and God
said,
"Ask
what
you wish me to give
you."
6
Then Solomon
said,
"You have shown
great
lovingkindness
to Your servant
David
my father,
according
as he walked
before
You in truth
and righteousness
and uprightness
of heart
toward
You; and You have reserved
for him this
great
lovingkindness
,
that You have given
him a son
to sit
on his throne,
as it is this
day.
7
"Now,
O LORD
my God,
You have made
Your servant
king
in place
of my father
David,
yet I am but a little
child;
I do not know
how to go
out or come
in.
8
"Your servant
is in the midst
of Your
people
which
You have chosen,
a great
people
who
are too
many
to be numbered
or counted.
9
"So give
Your servant
an understanding
heart
to judge
Your
people
to discern
between
good
and evil.
For who
is able
to judge
this
great
people
of Yours?"
10
It was pleasing
in the sight
of the Lord
that Solomon
had asked
this
thing.
11
God
said
to him, "Because
you
have asked
this
thing
and have not asked
for yourself long
life,
nor
have asked
riches
for yourself,
nor
have you asked
for the life
of your enemies,
but
have asked
for yourself discernment
to understand
justice,
12
behold,
I have done
according to your words.
Behold,
I have given
you a wise
and discerning
heart,
so
that there has been
no
one like
you before
you, nor
shall
one like
you arise
after
you.
13
"I have al
so
given
you what
you have not asked,
both
riches
and honor,
so
that there will not be any
among the kings
like
you all
your days.
14
"If
you walk
in My ways,
keeping
My statutes
and commandments,
as your father
David
walked,
then I will prolong
your days."
15
Then Solomon
awoke,
and behold,
it was a dream.
And he came
to Jerusalem
and stood
before
the ark
of the covenant
of the Lord,
and offered
burnt offerings
and made
peace offerings,
and made
a feast
for all
his servants.
16
Then
two
women
who were harlots
came
to the king
and stood
before
him.
17
The one
woman
said,
"Oh,
my lord,
this
woman
and I live
in the same
house;
and I gave birth to a child
while
she was in the house.
18
"It happened
on the third
day
after I gave
birth,
that this
woman
also
gave birth to a child,
and we were together.
There was no
stranger
with us in the house,
only
the two
of us in the house.
19
"This
woman's
son
died
in the night,
because
she lay
on it.
20
"So she arose
in the middle
of the night
and took
my
son
from beside
me while your maidservant
slept,
and laid
him in her bosom,
and laid
her dead
son
in my bosom.
21
"When I rose
in the morning
to nurse
my son,
behold,
he was dead;
but when I looked at him carefully
in the morning
,
behold,
he was not
my son,
whom
I had borne."
22
Then the other
woman
said,
"No!
For the living
one
is my son,
and the dead
one
is your son."
But the first
woman
said,
"No!
For the dead
one
is your son,
and the living
one
is my son."
Thus they spoke
before
the king.
23
Then the king
said,
"The one
says,
'This
is my son
who is living,
and your son
is the dead
one'; and the other
says,
'No!
For your son
is the dead
one, and my son
is the living one.'"
24
The king
said,
"Get
me
a sword
."
So they brought
a sword
before
the king.
25
The king
said,
"Divide
the living
child
in two,
and give
half
to the one
and
half
to the other."
26
Then the woman
whose
child
was the living
one
spoke
to the king,
for she was deeply
stirred
over
her son
and
said,
"Oh,
my lord,
give
her the living
child
,
and by no
means
kill
him." But the other
said,
"He shall be neither
mine nor
yours; divide
him!"
27
Then the king
said,
"Give
the first woman the living
child,
and by no
means
kill
him. She is his mother."
28
When all
Israel
heard
of the judgment
which
the king
had handed down,
they feared
the king
,
for they saw
that the wisdom
of God
was in him to administer
justice.
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