|
Fill out for free KJV Bible e-Book
& News from eBibleProductions.com about using today's technology to spread God's
Word. Your e-mail address will be kept absolutely confidential and we
promise it will not be shared with any other party.
|
|
  |
|
         |
1KI-3:1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of
David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and
the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
1KI-3:2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there
was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
1KI-3:3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of
David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high
places.
1KI-3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that
[was] the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did
Solomon offer upon that altar.
1KI-3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by
night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
1KI-3:6 And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant
David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee
in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with
thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou
hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as [it is] this day.
1KI-3:7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king
instead of David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I
know not [how] to go out or come in.
1KI-3:8 And thy servant [is] in the midst of thy people which
thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor
counted for multitude.
1KI-3:9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to
judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for
who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
1KI-3:10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked
this thing.
1KI-3:11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this
thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast
asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine
enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern
judgment;
1KI-3:12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have
given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was
none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise
like unto thee.
1KI-3:13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not
asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any
among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
1KI-3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes
and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will
lengthen thy days.
1KI-3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, [it was] a dream. And
he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant
of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace
offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
1KI-3:16 Then came there two women, [that were] harlots, unto
the king, and stood before him.
1KI-3:17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman
dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in
the house.
1KI-3:18 And it came to pass the third day after that 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.
1KI-3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she
overlaid it.
1KI-3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside
me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and
laid her dead child in my bosom.
1KI-3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck,
behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning,
behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
1KI-3:22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living [is] my
son, and the dead [is] thy son. And this said, No; but the dead
[is] thy son, and the living [is] my son. Thus they spake before
the king.
1KI-3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This [is] my son
that liveth, and thy son [is] the dead: and the other saith, Nay;
but thy son [is] the dead, and my son [is] the living.
1KI-3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a
sword before the king.
1KI-3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and
give half to the one, and half to the other.
1KI-3:26 Then spake the woman whose the living child [was] unto
the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O
my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But
the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, [but] divide
[it].
1KI-3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living
child, and in no wise slay it: she [is] the mother thereof.
1KI-3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had
judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom
of God [was] in him, to do judgment.
|
