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The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
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God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;
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behold, I have done according to your word: behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you.
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I have also 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.
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If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.
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Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
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Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, and stood before him.
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The one woman said, Oh, 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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It happened the third day after 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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This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.
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She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.