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1 Kings 3:3-22

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3And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.
4And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.
5In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you.
6And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.
7And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.
8And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.
9Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
10Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord.
11And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;
12I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.
13And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal.
14And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.
15And Solomon, awakening, saw that it was a dream; then he came to Jerusalem, where he went before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings; and he made a feast for all his servants.
16Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;
17And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.
18And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only.
19In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.
20And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.
21And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.
22And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king.

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