1 Kings 3:14-22

¹⁴If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

¹⁵Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the LORD’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

¹⁶Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

¹⁷The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

¹⁸The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

¹⁹This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.

²⁰She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

²¹When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.”

²²The other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.