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God said to him, "Because you have made this request instead of asking long life or riches for yourself, or your enemies' death, but rather asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;
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I am doing what you requested. I am giving you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has never been anyone like you, nor will there ever again be anyone like you.
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I am also giving you what you didn't ask for, riches and honor greater than that of any other king throughout your life.
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More than that, if you will live according to my ways, obeying my laws and mitzvot like your father David, I will give you a long life."
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Shlomo awoke and found it had been a dream. But he went to Yerushalayim, stood before the ark for the covenant of ADONAI and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings. He also made a feast for all his servants.
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After this, there came to the king two women who were prostitutes. After presenting themselves to him,
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one of the women said, "My lord, I and this woman live in the same house; and when she was in the house, I gave birth to a baby.
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Three days after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. We were there together; there was no one else with us in the house except the two of us.
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During the night this woman's child died, because she rolled over on top of it.
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So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from next to me, while your servant was sleeping, and put it in her arms; and she laid her dead child in my arms.
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When I awoke in the morning to feed my child from my breast, there it was, dead. But when I took a closer look later in the morning, why, it wasn't my son at all - not the one I gave birth to!"