mkjv - 1Kings:3-4,

mkjv@1Kings:3:1 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:2 @ Only the people sacrificed in high places because there was no house built to the name of the LORD until those days.

mkjv@1Kings:3:3 @ And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father. Only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

mkjv@1Kings:3:4 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:5 @ In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. And God said, Ask what I shall give you!

mkjv@1Kings:3:6 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:7 @ 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!

mkjv@1Kings:3:8 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:9 @ 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?

mkjv@1Kings:3:10 @ And the word was good in the eyes of the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing.

mkjv@1Kings:3:11 @ 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,

mkjv@1Kings:3:12 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:13 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:14 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:15 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:16 @ Then there came two women, harlots, to the king, and stood before him.

mkjv@1Kings:3:17 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:18 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:19 @ And this woman's child died in the night, because she laid on it.

mkjv@1Kings:3:20 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:21 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:22 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:23 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:3:24 @ And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

mkjv@1Kings:3:25 @ And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.

mkjv@1Kings:3:26 @ 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]!

mkjv@1Kings:3:27 @ And the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no way kill it. She [is] the mother of it.

mkjv@1Kings:3:28 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:4:1 @ And King Solomon was king over all Israel.

mkjv@1Kings:4:2 @ And these [were] the rulers which he had: Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,

mkjv@1Kings:4:3 @ Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha [were the] scribes. Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud the recorder,

mkjv@1Kings:4:4 @ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the army. And Zadok and Abiathar [were] priests.

mkjv@1Kings:4:5 @ And Azariah the son of Nathan [was] over the officers, and Zabud the son of Nathan [was] the minister and the king's friend.

mkjv@1Kings:4:6 @ And Ahishar [was] over the household. And Adoniram the son of Abda [was] over the forced labor.

mkjv@1Kings:4:7 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:4:8 @ These [are] their names: the son of Hur in Mount Ephraim;

mkjv@1Kings:4:9 @ the son of Dekar in Makaz and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;

mkjv@1Kings:4:10 @ the son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him [was] Sochoh and all the land of Hepher;

mkjv@1Kings:4:11 @ the son of Abinadab in all the height of Dor, Taphath the daughter of Solomon was a wife to him;

mkjv@1Kings:4:12 @ 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;

mkjv@1Kings:4:13 @ 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;

mkjv@1Kings:4:14 @ Ahinadab the son of Iddo [had] Mahanaim;

mkjv@1Kings:4:15 @ Ahimaaz [was] in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon for a wife;

mkjv@1Kings:4:16 @ Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and in Aloth;

mkjv@1Kings:4:17 @ Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah [was] in Issachar;

mkjv@1Kings:4:18 @ Shimei the son of Elah [was] in Benjamin;

mkjv@1Kings:4:19 @ 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;

mkjv@1Kings:4:20 @ Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand by the sea in multitude; eating and drinking and making merry.

mkjv@1Kings:4:21 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:4:22 @ And Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of fine flour and sixty measures of meal,

mkjv@1Kings:4:23 @ ten fat oxen and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fattened fowl.

mkjv@1Kings:4:24 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:4:25 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:4:26 @ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

mkjv@1Kings:4:27 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:4:28 @ They also brought barley and straw for the horses and mules, to the place where [the officers were], every man according to his charge.

mkjv@1Kings:4:29 @ And God gave Solomon exceeding great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that [is] on the seashore.

mkjv@1Kings:4:30 @ And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

mkjv@1Kings:4:31 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:4:32 @ And he spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were a thousand and five.

mkjv@1Kings:4:33 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:4:34 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:5:1 @ 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.