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And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt ,
and took Pharaoh '
s daughter ,
and brought her into the city of David ,
until he had made an end of building his own house ,
and the house of the LORD ,
and the wall of Jerusalem round about .
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Only the people sacrificed in high places ,
because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD ,
until those days .
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And Solomon loved the LORD ,
walking in the statutes of David his father :
only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places .
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And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there ;
for that was the great high place :
a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar .
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In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night :
and God said ,
Ask what I shall give thee .
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And Solomon said ,
Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy ,
according as he walked before thee in truth ,
and in righteousness ,
and in uprightness of heart with thee ;
and thou hast kept for him this great kindness ,
that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne ,
as it is this day .
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And now ,
O LORD my God ,
thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father :
and I am but a little child :
I know not how to go out or come in .
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And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen ,
a great people ,
that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude .
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Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people ,
that I may discern between good and bad :
for who is able to judge this thy so great a people ?
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And the speech pleased the Lord ,
that Solomon had asked this thing .
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And God said unto him ,
Because thou hast asked this thing ,
and hast not asked for thyself long life ;
neither hast asked riches for thyself ,
nor hast asked the life of thine enemies ;
but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment ;
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Behold ,
I have done according to thy words :
lo ,
I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart ;
so that there was none like thee before thee ,
neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee .
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And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked ,
both riches ,
and honour :
so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days .
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And if thou wilt walk in my ways ,
to keep my statutes and my commandments ,
as thy father David did walk ,
then I will lengthen thy days .
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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 .
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Then came there two women ,
that were harlots ,
unto the king ,
and stood before him .
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And the one woman said ,
O my lord ,
I and this woman dwell in one house ;
and I was delivered of a child with her in the house .
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And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered ,
that this woman was delivered also :
and we were together ;
there was no stranger with us in the house ,
save we two in the house .
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And this woman '
s child died in the night ;
because she overlaid it .
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And she arose at midnight ,
and took my son from beside me ,
while thine handmaid slept ,
and laid it in her bosom ,
and laid her dead child in my bosom .
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And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck ,
behold ,
it was dead :
but when I had considered it in the morning ,
behold ,
it was not my son ,
which I did bear .
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And the other woman said ,
Nay ;
but the living is my son ,
and the dead is thy son .
And this said ,
No ;
but the dead is thy son ,
and the living is my son .
Thus they spake before the king .
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Then said the king ,
The one saith ,
This is my son that liveth ,
and thy son is the dead :
and the other saith ,
Nay ;
but thy son is the dead ,
and my son is the living .
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And the king said ,
Bring me a sword .
And they brought a sword before the king .
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And the king said ,
Divide the living child in two ,
and give half to the one ,
and half to the other .
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Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king ,
for her bowels yearned upon her son ,
and she said ,
O my lord ,
give her the living child ,
and in no wise slay it .
But the other said ,
Let it be neither mine nor thine ,
but divide it .
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Then the king answered and said ,
Give her the living child ,
and in no wise slay it :
she is the mother thereof .
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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 .
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So king Solomon was king over all Israel .
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And these were the princes which he had ;
Azariah the son of Zadok the priest ,
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Elihoreph and Ahiah ,
the sons of Shisha ,
scribes ;
Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud ,
the recorder .
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And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host :
and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests :
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And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers :
and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer ,
and the king '
s friend :
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And Ahishar was over the household :
and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute .
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And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel ,
which provided victuals for the king and his household :
each man his month in a year made provision .
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And these are their names :
The son of Hur ,
in mount Ephraim :
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The son of Dekar ,
in Makaz ,
and in Shaalbim ,
and Bethshemesh ,
and Elonbethhanan :
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The son of Hesed ,
in Aruboth ;
to him pertained Sochoh ,
and all the land of Hepher :
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The son of Abinadab ,
in all the region of Dor ;
which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife :
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Baana the son of Ahilud ;
to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo ,
and all Bethshean ,
which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel ,
from Bethshean to Abelmeholah ,
even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam :
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The son of Geber ,
in Ramothgilead ;
to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh ,
which are in Gilead ;
to him also pertained the region of Argob ,
which is in Bashan ,
threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars :
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim :
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Ahimaaz was in Naphtali ;
he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife :
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Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth :
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah ,
in Issachar :
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Shimei the son of Elah ,
in Benjamin :
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Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead ,
in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites ,
and of Og king of Bashan ;
and he was the only officer which was in the land .
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Judah and Israel were many ,
as the sand which is by the sea in multitude ,
eating and drinking ,
and making merry .
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And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines ,
and unto the border of Egypt :
they brought presents ,
and served Solomon all the days of his life .
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And Solomon '
s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour ,
and threescore measures of meal ,
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Ten fat oxen ,
and twenty oxen out of the pastures ,
and an hundred sheep ,
beside harts ,
and roebucks ,
and fallowdeer ,
and fatted fowl .
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For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river ,
from Tiphsah even to Azzah ,
over all the kings on this side the river :
and he had peace on all sides round about him .
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And Judah and Israel dwelt safely ,
every man under his vine and under his fig tree ,
from Dan even to Beersheba ,
all the days of Solomon .
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And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots ,
and twelve thousand horsemen .
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And those officers provided victual for king Solomon ,
and for all that came unto king Solomon '
s table ,
every man in his month :
they lacked nothing .
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Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were ,
every man according to his charge .
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And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much ,
and largeness of heart ,
even as the sand that is on the sea shore .
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And Solomon '
s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country ,
and all the wisdom of Egypt .
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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 round about .
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And he spake three thousand proverbs :
and his songs were a thousand and five .
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And he spake of trees ,
from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall :
he spake also of beasts ,
and of fowl ,
and of creeping things ,
and of fishes .
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And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon ,
from all kings of the earth ,
which had heard of his wisdom .
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And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon ;
for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father :
for Hiram was ever a lover of David .
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And Solomon sent to Hiram ,
saying ,
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Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side ,
until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet .
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But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side ,
so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent .
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And ,
behold ,
I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God ,
as the LORD spake unto David my father ,
saying ,
Thy son ,
whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room ,
he shall build an house unto my name .
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Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon ;
and my servants shall be with thy servants :
and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint :
for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians .
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And it came to pass ,
when Hiram heard the words of Solomon ,
that he rejoiced greatly ,
and said ,
Blessed be the LORD this day ,
which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people .
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And Hiram sent to Solomon ,
saying ,
I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for :
and I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar ,
and concerning timber of fir .
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My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea :
and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me ,
and will cause them to be discharged there ,
and thou shalt receive them :
and thou shalt accomplish my desire ,
in giving food for my household .
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So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire .
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And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household ,
and twenty measures of pure oil :
thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year .
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And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom ,
as he promised him :
and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon ;
and they two made a league together .
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And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel ;
and the levy was thirty thousand men .
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And he sent them to Lebanon ,
ten thousand a month by courses :
a month they were in Lebanon ,
and two months at home :
and Adoniram was over the levy .
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And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens ,
and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains ;
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Beside the chief of Solomon '
s officers which were over the work ,
three thousand and three hundred ,
which ruled over the people that wrought in the work .
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And the king commanded ,
and they brought great stones ,
costly stones ,
and hewed stones ,
to lay the foundation of the house .
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And Solomon '
s builders and Hiram '
s builders did hew them ,
and the stonesquarers :
so they prepared timber and stones to build the house .
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And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt ,
in the fourth year of Solomon '
s reign over Israel ,
in the month Zif ,
which is the second month ,
that he began to build the house of the LORD .
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