1 Kings 3:14-22

¹⁴If you conduct your life IDM as I want you to, and if you obey all my laws and commandments, as your father David did, I will enable you to live for many years.”

¹⁵Then Solomon awoke, and he realized that God had spoken to him in a dream. Then he went to Jerusalem and stood in front of the Sacred Tent where the Sacred Chest was, and he offered many sacrifices that were completely burned on the altar and offerings to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. Then he made a feast for all his officials.

¹⁶One day two prostitutes came and stood in front of King Solomon.

¹⁷One of them said, “Your Majesty, this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby while she was there in the house.

¹⁸Three days after my baby was born, this woman also gave birth to a baby. Only the two of us were in the house; there was no one else there.

¹⁹But one night this woman's baby died because she accidentally rolled on top of her baby while sleeping and smothered it.

²⁰So she got up at midnight and took my baby boy who was lying beside me while I was sleeping. She carried him to her bed and brought her dead baby and put it in my bed.

²¹When I awoke the next morning and was ready to nurse my baby, I saw that it was dead. But when I looked at it closely in the morning light, I saw that it was not my baby!”

²²But the other woman said, “That is not true! The baby that is alive is mine, and the baby that is dead is yours!” Then the first woman said, “No, the dead baby is yours, and the one that is alive is mine!” And they continued to argue in front of the king.