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Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord.
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And 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;
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I 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.
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And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal.
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And 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.
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And 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.
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Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;
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And 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.
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And 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.
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In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.
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And 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.