1 Kings 3

¹ And Solomon joins in marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and takes the daughter of Pharaoh, and brings her in unto the city of David, till he completes to build his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. ² Only, the people are sacrificing in high places, for there has not been built a house for the name of Yahweh till those days. ³ And Solomon loves Yahweh, to walk in the statutes of David his father - only, in high places he is sacrificing and making perfume. ⁴ and the king goes to Gibeon, to sacrifice there, for it [is] the great high place; a thousand burnt-offerings cause to ascend does Solomon on that altar. ⁵ In Gibeon has Yahweh appeared unto Solomon, in a dream of the night, and Elohim said, "Ask - what do I give to you?" ⁶ And Solomon said, "You have done with Your servant David my father great kindness, as he walked before You in truth and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You, and You do keep for him this great kindness, and do give to him a son sitting on his throne, as [at] this day. ⁷ And now, O Yahweh my Elohim, You have caused your servant to reign instead of David my father; and I [am] a little child, I do not know to go out and to come in; ⁸ and Your servant [is] in the midst of your people, whom You have chosen, a people numerous, that is not numbered nor counted for multitude, ⁹ and You have given to Your servant an understanding heart, to judge Your people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Your great people?" ¹⁰ And the thing is good in the eyes of the Lord, that Solomon has asked this thing, ¹¹ and Elohim said unto him, "Because that you have asked this thing, and have not asked for you many days, nor asked for you riches, nor asked the life of your enemies, and have asked for you discernment to understand judgment, ¹² lo, I have done according to your words; lo, I have given to you a heart, wise and understanding, that like you there has not been before you, and after you there does not arise like you; ¹³ and also, that which you have not asked I have given to you, both riches and honor, that there has not been like you a man among the kings all your days; ¹⁴ and if you do walk in My ways to keep My statutes, and My commands, as David your father walked, then I have prolonged your days." ¹⁵ And Solomon awakes, and lo, a dream; and he comes in to Jerusalem, and stands before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and causes to ascend burnt-offerings, and makes peace-offerings. And he makes a banquet for all his servants, ¹⁶ then come in do two women, harlots, unto the king, and stand before him, ¹⁷ and the one woman said, "O, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth with her, in the house; ¹⁸ and it comes to pass on the third day of my bringing forth, that this woman also brings forth, and we [are] together, there is no stranger with us in the house, save we two, in the house. ¹⁹ And the son of this woman dies at night, because she has lain upon it, ²⁰ and she rises in the middle of the night, and takes my son from beside me - and your handmaid is asleep - and lays it in her bosom, and her dead son she has laid in my bosom; ²¹ and I rise in the morning to suckle my son, and lo, dead; and I consider concerning it in the morning, and lo, it was not my son whom I did bear." ²² And the other woman said, "Nay, but my son [is] the living, and your son the dead"; and this [one] said, "Nay, but your son [is] the dead, and my son the living." And they speak before the king. ²³ And the king said, "This [one] said, This [is] my son, the living, and your son [is] the dead; and that [one] said, Nay, but your son [is] the dead, and my son the living." ²⁴ And the king said, "Take for me a sword"; and they bring the sword before the king, ²⁵ and the king said, "Cut the living child into two, and give the half to the one, and the half to the other." ²⁶ And the woman whose son [is] the living one said unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she said, "O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death"; and this [one] said, "Let it be neither mine or your - cut [it]." ²⁷ And the king answers and said, "Give you to her the living child, and put it not at all to death; she [is] its mother." ²⁸ And all Israel hear of the judgment that the king has judged, and fear because of the king, for they have seen that the wisdom of Elohim [is] in his heart, to do judgment.