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Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took for himself Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David, until he built his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. |
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Only the people sacrificed in high places, because the house for the name of the Lord was not built up to that time. |
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And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father; but he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. |
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And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there to bring, because it was the main altar. Thousand burnt offerings Solomon on that altar.
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In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. |
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And Solomon said, Thou hast made thy servant David my father great mercy; and for the fact that he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness, and with a sincere heart before thee, thou hast kept this great kindness to him and given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day; |
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And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father; but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in; |
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And thy servant - among thy people, which thou hast chosen, a great people, that the set can not be numbered nor his or survey; |
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Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, and discern between good and evil; For who is able to govern this great people of yours? |
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And it pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. |
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And God said to him: Because you have asked this and have not asked for thyself long life, neither hast asked riches, neither hast asked souls of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; - |
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Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and understanding heart, so that was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee; |
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and that which thou hast not asked, I give you, both riches and honor, so that there is no one like you among the kings all thy days; |
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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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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 burnt offerings and made [the victim's] peace, and made a feast for all his servants.
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Then came two women, harlots, to the king and stood before him. |
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And one woman said, Oh, my lord! I and this woman dwell in one house; and I gave birth with her in the house; |
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on the third day after I gave birth, this woman bore and; and we were together, and no one in the house of a stranger was not with us; only we two were in the house; |
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and this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it |
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and she arose at midnight, and took my son from me, when I, your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom; |
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in the morning I got up to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had considered it in the morning, it was not my son, whom I bore. |
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And the other woman said, No, my son is alive and your son is dead. And she said, No, your son is dead, and my living. And they said so before the king. |
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And the king said: This tells my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead; and she says no, your son is dead, and my son is the living. |
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And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. |
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And the king said, Divide the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other. |
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Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, 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. |
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Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she - his mother. |
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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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