Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into David’s city until he had finished building his own house, the LORD’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem. 1Ki 9:241Ki 11:11Ki 6:11Ki 9:15-192Ch 2:1-42Ch 8:112Sa 5:71Ch 11:7 However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the LORD’s name. 1Ki 22:432Ch 33:17Deu 12:2-5Lev 26:301Ch 17:4-61Ch 28:3-61Ki 5:3Act 7:47-49 Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. 1Co 8:3Psa 31:23Deu 30:16Deu 6:51Ki 3:141Ki 3:6Deu 10:12Deu 30:20 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. 1Ch 16:392Ch 1:32Ch 7:51Ch 21:292Ch 1:6-12Isa 40:16Jos 9:31Ki 8:63 In Gibeon, the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.” 1Ki 9:2Jas 1:5-6Num 12:62Ch 1:7-12Jhn 14:13-14Mrk 10:36Gen 28:12-13Mat 2:13
Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today. 1Ki 9:41Ki 1:481Ki 2:42Co 9:112Sa 7:8-121Ch 29:12-142Co 9:52Ki 20:3 Now, LORD my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in. 1Ch 29:1Num 27:17Jer 1:6Mat 18:3-41Sa 18:162Sa 5:2Dan 2:21Dan 4:25 Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude. Gen 15:51Ch 21:2Gen 13:16Gen 22:171Ch 21:5-61Ch 27:23-241Sa 12:22Deu 7:6-8 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?” Jas 1:5Heb 5:14Pro 16:16Jhn 5:30Pro 2:3-92Sa 14:17Pro 3:13-181Ch 22:12
This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. Pro 15:8 God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, 1Ki 3:9Jas 4:2-3Pro 16:31Rom 8:26Mat 20:21-22Psa 4:6 behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you. 1Jn 5:14-15Ecc 1:16Mat 12:421Ki 5:121Ki 10:23-241Ki 3:282Ch 2:12Rom 8:26-27 I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days. Eph 3:20Mat 6:33Pro 3:16Psa 84:11-12Rom 8:321Ki 4:21-241Ki 10:23-291Co 3:22-23 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.” Pro 3:2Psa 91:161Ki 15:5Zec 3:71Ki 2:3-41Ki 3:62Ch 34:2Pro 3:16
Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the LORD’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. 1Ki 8:65Gen 41:7Dan 5:1Est 1:31Ch 16:1-21Ki 8:632Ch 30:22-262Ch 7:5
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him. Exo 18:16Jdg 11:1Deu 23:17Jos 2:1Lev 19:29Num 27:2Exo 18:13 The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house. Gen 43:20Rom 13:7 The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house. This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it. She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. Jhn 3:20Job 24:13-17Mat 13:25Psa 139:11 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.” 1Sa 1:23Gen 21:7Lam 4:3-4
The other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” 1Ki 3:23-24
The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.
Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead one;’ and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”
The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.
The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.” Pro 25:8
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” Isa 49:15Jer 31:201Jn 3:17Gen 43:30Hos 11:8Php 1:8Php 2:12Ti 3:3
But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”
Then the king answered, “Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”
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 justice. 1Ki 3:9-12Col 2:3Dan 2:471Co 1:24Dan 2:21Ecc 7:19Pro 24:21Ezr 7:25