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Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into
the city of David, until he had made an end of
building his own house, and the house of the
Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
02 Only the people sacrificed in high places,
because there was no house built unto the name of
the Lord, until those days.
03 And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the
statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed
and burnt incense in high places.
04 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice
there; for that was the great high place: a
thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon
that altar.
05 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a
dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall
give thee.
06 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy
servant David my father great mercy, according as
he walked before thee in truth, and in
righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with
thee; and thou hast kept for him this great
kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit
on his throne, as it is this day.
07 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy
servant king instead of David my father: and I am
but a little child: I know not how to go out or
come in.
08 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people
which thou hast chosen, a great people, that
cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
09 Give therefore thy servant an understanding
heart to judge thy people, that I may discern
between good and bad: for who is able to judge
this thy so great a people?
10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon
had asked this thing.
11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked
this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long
life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor
hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast
asked for thyself understanding to discern
judgment;
12 Behold, I have done according to thy words:
lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding
heart; so that there was none like thee before
thee, neither after thee shall any arise like
unto thee.
13 And I have also given thee that which thou
hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that
there shall not be any among the kings like unto
thee all thy days.
14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my
statutes and my commandments, as thy father David
did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
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15 And 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
up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings,
and made a feast to all his servants.
16 Then came there two women, that were harlots,
unto the king, and stood before him.
17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this
woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of
a child with her in the house.
18 And it came to pass the third day after that I
was delivered, that this woman was delivered
also: and we were together; there was no stranger
with us in the house, save we two in the house.
19 And this woman's child died in the night;
because she overlaid it.
20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son
from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and
laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in
my bosom.
21 And when I rose in the morning to give my
child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had
considered it in the morning, behold, it was not
my son, which I did bear.
22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living
is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this
said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living
is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my
son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the
other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my
son is the living.
24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they
brought a sword before the king.
25 And the king said, Divide the living child in
two, and give half to the one, and half to the
other.
26 Then spake the woman whose the living child
was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon
her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the
living child, and in no wise slay it. But the
other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but
divide it.
27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the
living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the
mother thereof.
28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the
king had judged; and they feared the king: for
they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do
judgment.
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