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Text -- 1 Kings 3:1-24 (NET)

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The Lord Gives Solomon Wisdom
3:1 Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem. 3:2 Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord. 3:3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places. 3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there. 3:5 One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell me what I should give you.” 3:6 Solomon replied, “You demonstrated great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne. 3:7 Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in my father David’s place, even though I am only a young man and am inexperienced. 3:8 Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number. 3:9 So give your servant a discerning mind so he can make judicial decisions for your people and distinguish right from wrong. Otherwise no one is able to make judicial decisions for this great nation of yours.” 3:10 The Lord was pleased that Solomon made this request. 3:11 God said to him, “Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies, 3:12 I grant your request, and give you a wise and discerning mind superior to that of anyone who has preceded or will succeed you. 3:13 Furthermore, I am giving you what you did not request– riches and honor so that you will be the greatest king of your generation. 3:14 If you follow my instructions by obeying my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, then I will grant you long life.” 3:15 Solomon then woke up and realized it was a dream. He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, offered up burnt sacrifices, presented peace offerings, and held a feast for all his servants.
Solomon Demonstrates His Wisdom
3:16 Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. 3:17 One of the women said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house. 3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us. 3:19 This woman’s child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him. 3:20 She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms. 3:21 I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.” 3:22 The other woman said, “No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied, “No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king. 3:23 The king said, “One says, ‘My son is alive; your son is dead,’ while the other says, ‘No, your son is dead; my son is alive.’” 3:24 The king ordered, “Get me a sword!” So they placed a sword before the king.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · City of David the capital of Israel, on the border of Benjamin and Judah
 · city of David the capital of Israel, on the border of Benjamin and Judah
 · David a son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel,son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim
 · Gibeon a town of Benjamin pioneered by Jeiel of Benjamin
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · Pharaoh the king who ruled Egypt when Moses was born,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in Abraham's time,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in Joseph's time,the title of the king who ruled Egypt when Moses was born,the title of the king who refused to let Israel leave Egypt,the title of the king of Egypt whose daughter Solomon married,the title of the king who ruled Egypt in the time of Isaiah,the title Egypt's ruler just before Moses' time
 · Solomon the tenth son of David; the father of Rehoboam; an ancestor of Jesus; the third king of Israel.,son of David and Bath-Sheba; successor of King David


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Solomon | Micah, Book of | Temple, Solomon's | Gibeon | Prayer | Dream | Wisdom | Judge | INTERCESSION | DIVINATION | Children | Communion | LAW OF MOSES | Arbitration | QUEEN OF SHEBA | Rulers | PROVERBS, THE BOOK OF | DECISION | WISDOM OF SOLOMON, THE | DREAM; DREAMER | more
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NET Notes: 1Ki 3:1 For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:2 Heb “for the name of the Lord.” The word “name” sometimes refers to one’s reputation or honor (thus the translation here...

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:3 Or “policies, rules.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:4 The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 ...

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:5 Heb “ask.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:6 Heb “and you have kept to him this great loyalty and you gave to him a son [who] sits on his throne as this day.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:7 Heb “and I do not know going out or coming in.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:8 Heb “your people whom you have chosen.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:9 Heb “your numerous people.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:10 Heb “And the thing was good in the eyes of the Lord, for Solomon asked for this thing.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:11 Heb “because you asked for this thing, and did not ask for yourself many days and did not ask for yourself riches and did not ask for the life o...

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:12 Heb “so that there has not been one like you prior to you, and after you one will not arise like you.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:13 Heb “so that there is not one among the kings like you all your days.” The LXX lacks the words “all your days.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:14 Heb “I will lengthen your days.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:15 Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:18 There was no one else in the house except the two of us. In other words, there were no other witnesses to the births who could identify which child be...

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:19 Heb “lay, slept.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:21 Heb “look, it was not my son to whom I had given birth.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 3:22 Heb “they spoke before the king.” Another option is to translate, “they argued before the king.”

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