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Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings.
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And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.”
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Then Solomon awoke—and he realized it had been a dream. He returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he gave a feast for all his court.
A Wise Ruling
16 Now two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
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One of them said, “Pardon me, my lord. This woman and I live in the same house, and I had a baby while she was there with me.
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The third day after my child was born, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one in the house but the two of us.
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“During the night this woman’s son died because she lay on him.
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So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I your servant was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast.
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The next morning, I got up to nurse my son—and he was dead! But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t the son I had borne.”
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The other woman said, “No! The living one is my son; the dead one is yours.” But the first one insisted, “No! The dead one is yours; the living one is mine.” And so they argued before the king.
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The king said, “This one says, ‘My son is alive and your son is dead,’ while that one says, ‘No! Your son is dead and mine is alive.’ ”