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* And Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt , and took Pharaoh 's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he finished building his own house , and the house of the LORD , and the wall around Jerusalem . * Only the people sacrificed in high places because there was no house built to the name of the LORD until those days . * And Solomon loved the LORD , walking in the statutes of David his father . Only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places . * And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there . For that [was ] the great high place . Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar . * In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night . And God said , Ask what I shall give you ! * And Solomon said , You have shown to Your servant David my father great mercy , according as he walked before You in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with You . And You have kept this great kindness for him , that You have given him a son to sit on his throne , as [it is ] today . * And now , O LORD my God , You have made Your servant king instead of David my father . And I [am ] a little child ; I do not know to go out or come in ! * And Your servant [is ] in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen , a numerous people who cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude . * And give to Your servant an understanding heart , to judge Your people , to discern between good and bad . For who is able to judge this , Your great people ? * And the word was good in the eyes of the LORD , that Solomon had asked this thing . * And God said to him , Because you have asked this thing , and have not asked for yourself long life , and have not asked riches for yourself , nor have asked the life of your enemies , but have asked for yourself understanding to judge justly , * behold , I have done according to your words . Lo , I have given you a wise and an understanding heart , so that there was none like you before you , and after you none shall arise like you . * And I also have given you that which you have not asked , both riches and honor , so that there shall not be any among the kings like you all your days . * And if you will walk in My ways , to keep My statutes and My commandments , as your father David walked , then I will lengthen your days . * 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 . * Then there came two women , harlots , to the king , and stood before him . * And the one woman said , O my lord , this woman and I live in one house . And I was bore a child with her in the house . * And it happened the third day after I gave birth , this woman bore a child also . And we [were ] together ; there was no stranger with us in the house , except the two of us in the house . * And this woman 's child died in the night , because she laid on it . * And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me , while your servant was sleeping , and laid it in her bosom , and laid her dead child in my bosom . * When I arose in the morning to give my child suck , behold , [it was ] dead . And when I had looked at it in the morning , behold , it was not my son whom I bore . * And the other woman said , No , but the living [is ] my son , and the dead [is ] your son . And this one said , No , but the dead is your son , and the living is my son . So they spoke before the king . * And the king said , The one says , This [is ] my son who lives , and your son [is ] the dead . And the other says , No , but your son [is ] the dead , and my son [is ] the living . * And the king said , Bring me a sword . And they brought a sword before the king . * And the king said , Divide the living child in two , and give half to the one and half to the other . * And the woman whose son [was ] the living child said to the king , for her womb yearned over her son . And she said , O my lord , give her the living child , and in no way kill it . But the other said , Let it be neither mine nor yours ; divide [it ]! * And the king answered and said , Give her the living child , and in no way kill it . She [is ] the mother of it . * 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 . * And King Solomon was king over all Israel . * And these [were ] the rulers which he had : Azariah the son of Zadok the priest , * Elihoreph and Ahiah , the sons of Shisha [were the ] scribes . Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud the recorder , * And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was ] over the army . And Zadok and Abiathar [were ] priests . * And Azariah the son of Nathan [was ] over the officers , and Zabud the son of Nathan [was ] the minister and the king 's friend . * And Ahishar [was ] over the household . And Adoniram the son of Abda [was ] over the forced labor . * And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel , who provided food for the king and his household . Each man had his month in a year to provide food . * These [are ] their names : the son of Hur in Mount Ephraim ; * the son of Dekar in Makaz and in Shaalbim , and Beth-shemesh , and Elon-beth-hanan ; * the son of Hesed , in Aruboth ; to him [was ] Sochoh and all the land of Hepher ; * the son of Abinadab in all the height of Dor , Taphath the daughter of Solomon was a wife to him ; * Baana the son of Ahilud to whom [was ] Taanach and Megiddo , and all Beth-shean , which is by Zartanah below Jezreel , from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah to [the place that is ] beyond Jokneam ; * the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead ; to him [were ] the towns of Jair , Manasseh 's son , which [are ] in Gilead ; to him [was ] the region of Argob , which [is ] in Bashan , sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars ; * Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had ] Mahanaim ; * Ahimaaz [was ] in Naphtali ; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon for a wife ; * Baanah the son of Hushai [was ] in Asher and in Aloth ; * Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah [was ] in Issachar ; * Shimei the son of Elah [was ] in Benjamin ; * Geber the son of Uri [was ] in the land of Gilead , the land of Sihon king of the Amorites , and Og king of Bashan ; and [he was the ] only officer in the land ; * Judah and Israel [were ] many , as the sand by the sea in multitude ; eating and drinking and making merry . * And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines , and to the border of Egypt . They brought presents and served Solomon all the days of his life . * And Solomon 's food for one day was thirty measures of fine flour and sixty measures of meal , * ten fat oxen and twenty oxen out of the pastures , and a hundred sheep , besides harts and roebucks , and fallow deer , and fattened fowl . * For he had the rule over all on this side of the River , from Tiphsah even to Azzah , over all the kings on this side the River . And he had peace on all sides all around him . * And Judah and Israel lived safely , [every ] man under his vine and under his fig-tree , from Dan even to Beer-sheba , all the days of Solomon . * And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots , and twelve thousand horsemen . * And those officers provided food [for ] King Solomon and for all who came to king Solomon 's table , every man in his month . They did not lack anything . * They also brought barley and straw for the horses and mules , to the place where [the officers were ], every man according to his charge . * And God gave Solomon exceeding great wisdom and understanding , and largeness of heart , even as the sand that [is ] on the seashore . * And Solomon 's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east , and all the wisdom of Egypt . * For he was wiser than all men ; than Ethan the Ezrahite , and Heman , and Chalcol , and Darda , the sons of Mahol . And his fame was in all nations all around . * And he spoke three thousand proverbs , and his songs were a thousand and five . * And he spoke of trees , from the cedar tree in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall . He spoke also of beasts and of birds , and of creeping things , and of fish . * And there came from all the people , to hear the wisdom of Solomon , from all the kings of the earth , who had heard of his wisdom . * And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon , for he had heard that they had anointed him king instead of his father . For Hiram was always a lover of David .

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