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So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."
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Then Solomon awoke; and indeed it had been a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
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Now two women who were harlots came to the king, and stood before him.
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And one woman said, "O my lord, this woman and I dwell in the same house; and I gave birth while she was in the house.
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Then it happened, the third day after I had given birth, that this woman also gave birth. And we were together; no one was with us in the house, except the two of us in the house.
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And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on him.
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So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
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And when I rose in the morning to nurse my son, there he was, dead. But when I had examined him in the morning, indeed, he was not my son whom I had borne."
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Then the other woman said, "No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son." And the first woman said, "No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son." Thus they spoke before the king.
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And the king said, "The 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.' "
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Then the king said, "Bring me a sword." So they brought a sword before the king.