Hello, and welcome
to His Words are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer and today we're
going to read together in the
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book of 1st Kings. And
we're starting with the story of
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the reign of King Solomon,
the wisest man who ever lived.
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Before we begin to
read, let's pray together.
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Dear God, we ask for you to
send your wisdom to our ears
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through this story. Help us
to hear, not just with our ears,
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but with our hearts also.
Create in us clean hearts,
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and then give us your wisdom
to live according to your will.
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We love you so much and
thank you for loving us. Amen.
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We're beginning in 1st
Kings, chapter 2, with verse 11,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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And the days that David reigned
over Israel were forty years:
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7 years reigned he in
Hebron, and 30 and 3 years
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reigned he in Jerusalem.
Then sat Solomon upon the throne
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of David his father; and his
kingdom was established greatly.
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And Adonijah the son of Haggith
came to Bathsheba the mother of
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Solomon. And she
said, Comest thou peaceably?
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And he said, Peaceably. He said
moreover, I have somewhat to say
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unto thee. And she said, Say on.
And he said, Thou knowest that
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the kingdom was mine, and that
all Israel set their faces on me
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that I should reign: howbeit the
kingdom is turned about, and is
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become my brother's: for
it was his from the Lord.
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And now I ask one
petition of thee, deny me not.
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And she said unto him, Say on.
And he said, Speak, I pray thee
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unto Solomon the king,
for he will not say thee nay,
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that he give me
Abishag the Shunamite to wife.
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And Bathsheba said, Well; I will
speak for thee unto the king.
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Bathsheba therefore went unto
king Solomon, to speak unto him
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for Adonijah. And the king
rose up to meet her, and bowed
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himself unto her, and sat down
on his throne, and caused a seat
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to be set for the king's mother;
and she sat on his right hand.
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Then she said I desire one small
petition of thee: I pray thee,
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say me not nay. And the king
said unto her, Ask on, my mother
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for I will not say thee
nay. And she said, Let Abishag
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the Shunamite be given to
Adonijah thy brother to wife.
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And King Solomon answered and
said unto his mother, And why
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dost thou ask Abishag
the Shunamite for Adonijah?
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ask for him the kingdom also;
for he is mine elder brother;
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even for him, and for Abiathar
the priest, and for Joab the son
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of Zeruiah. Then king Solomon
sware by the Lord, saying,
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God do so to me, and more also,
if Adonijah have not spoken
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this word against his own life.
Now therefore as the Lord liveth
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which hath established me, and
set me on the throne of David my
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father, and who hath made
me an house, as he promised,
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Adonijah shall be put to
death this day. And king Solomon
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sent by the hand of Benaiah
the son of Jehoiada: and he fell
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upon him that he died.
And unto Abiathar the priest
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said the king, Get thee to
Anathoth, unto thine own fields;
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for thou art worthy of death:
but I will not at this time
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put thee to death, because thou
bearest the ark of the Lord God
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before David, my Father, and
because thou hast been afflicted
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in all wherein my father
was afflicted. So Solomon thrust
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out Abiathar from being priest
unto the Lord; that he might
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fulfill the word of the
Lord, which he spake concerning
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the house of Eli in Shiloh.
Then tidings came to Joab:
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for Joab had turned after
Adonijah, though he turned
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not after Absalom. And Joab fled
unto the tabernacle of the Lord,
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and caught hold on the horns of
the altar. And it was told king
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Solomon that Joab was fled
unto the tabernacle of the Lord;
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and, behold, he is by the
altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah
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the son of Jehoiada,
saying, Go, fall upon him.
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And Benaiah came to
the tabernacle of the Lord,
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and said unto him, Thus
saith the king, Come forth.
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And he said, Nay; but I will die
here. And Benaiah brought the
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king word again, saying, Thus
said Joab, and thus he answered
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me. And the king said unto him,
Do as he hath said, and fall
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upon him, and bury him;
that thou mayest take away the
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innocent blood, which Joab shed,
from me, and from the house of
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my father. And the Lord shall
return his blood upon his own
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head, who fell upon two men more
righteous and better than he,
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and slew them with the sword, my
father David not knowing thereof
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to wit, Abner the son of Ner,
captain of the host of Israel,
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and Amasa, the son of Jether,
captain of the host of Judah.
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Their blood shall therefore
return upon the head of Joab,
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and upon the head of his
seed forever; but upon David,
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and upon his seed, and upon his
house and upon his throne, shall
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there be peace for
ever from the Lord.
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So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
went up, and fell upon him,
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and slew him: and he
was buried in his own house
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in the wilderness. And the king
put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
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in his room over the host: and
Zadok the priest did the king
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put in the room of Abiathar.
And the king sent and called
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for Shimei, and said unto him,
Build thee an house in Jerusalem
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and dwell there, and go
not forth thence any whither.
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For it shall be, that on
the day that thou goest out,
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and passest over the brook
Kidron, thou shalt know for
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certain that thou shalt surely
die: thy blood shall be upon
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thine own head. And Shimei said
unto the king, The saying is
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good: as my lord the king hath
said, so will thy servant do.
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And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem
many days. And it came to pass
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at the end of three years, that
two of the servants of Shimei
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ran away unto Achish,
son of Maachah, king of Gath.
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And they told Shimei, saying,
Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
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And Shimei arose, and saddled
his ass, and went to Gath
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to Achish to seek his servants:
and Shimei went, and brought
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his servants from Gath. And
it was told Solomon that Shimei
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had gone from Jerusalem to Gath,
and was come again. And the king
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sent and called for Shimei, and
said unto him, Did I not make
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thee to swear by the Lord,
and protested unto thee, saying,
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Know for a certain, on the
day thou goest out, and walkest
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abroad any whither, that
thou shalt surely die? and thou
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saidst unto me, The word
that I have heard is good.
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Why then hast thou not
kept the oath of the Lord,
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and the commandment that
I have charged thee with?
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The king said moreover to
Shimei, Thou knowest all the
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wickedness which thine heart
is privy to, that thou didst
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to David my father: therefore
the Lord shall return thy
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wickedness upon thine own
head; And king Solomon shall be
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blessed, and the throne of David
shall be established before
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the Lord for ever. So the king
commanded Benaiah, the son of
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Jehoiada; which went out,
and fell upon him, that he died
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And the kingdom was established
in the hand of Solomon.
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We're continuing in the
book of 1st Kings, chapter 3,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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And Solomon made affinity
with Pharaoh king of Egypt,
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and took Pharaoh's daughter,
and brought her into the city
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of David, until he had made an
end of building his own house,
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and the house of the Lord,
and the wall of Jerusalem round
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about. Only the people
sacrificed in high places,
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because there was no house
built unto the name of the Lord,
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until those days. And Solomon
loved the Lord, walking in the
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statutes of David his father:
only he sacrificed and burnt
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incense in high places.
And the king went to Gibeon
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to sacrifice there; for
that was the great high place:
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a thousand burnt offerings did
Solomon offer upon that altar.
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In Gibeon the Lord appeared
to Solomon in a dream by night:
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And God said, Ask what I shall
give thee. And Solomon said,
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Thou hast showed unto
thy servant David my father
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great mercy, according as
he walked before thee in truth,
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and in righteousness, and in
uprightness of heart with thee;
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and thou hast kept for him this
great kindness, that thou hast
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given him a son to sit on
his throne, as it is this day.
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And now, O Lord my God,
thou hast made thy servant king
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instead of David my father:
and I am but a little child:
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I know not how to go out
or to come in. And thy servant
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is in the midst of thy
people which thou hast chosen,
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a great people, that
cannot be numbered nor counted
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for multitude. Give therefore
thy servant an understanding
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heart to judge thy people, that
I may discern between good and
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bad: for who is able to judge
this thy so great a people?
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And the speech pleased the
Lord, that Solomon had asked
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this thing. And God said unto
him, Because thou hast asked
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this thing, and hast not asked
for thyself long life; neither
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hast asked riches for thyself,
nor hast asked the life of thine
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enemies: but hast asked
for thyself understanding
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to discern judgment; Behold, I
have done according to thy words
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lo, I have given thee a
wise and an understanding heart;
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so that there was none
like thee before thee, neither
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after thee shall any arise like
unto thee. And I have also given
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thee that which thou hast not
asked, both riches, and honor:
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so that there shall not be any
among the kings like unto thee
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all thy days. And if thou
wilt walk in my ways, to keep my
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statutes and my commandments,
as thy father David did walk,
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then I will lengthen thy days.
And Solomon awoke; And behold
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it was a dream. And he
came to Jerusalem, and stood
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before the ark of the covenant
of the Lord, and offered up
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burnt offerings, and offered
peace offerings, and made a
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feast to all his servants.
Then came there two women,
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that were harlots, unto
the king and stood before him.
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And the one woman said, O
my lord, I and this woman dwell
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in one house; and I was
delivered of a child with her
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in the house. And it came
to pass the third day after
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that I was delivered, that
this woman was delivered also:
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and we were together;
there was no stranger with us
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in the house save we two in the
house. And this woman's child
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died in the night; because
she overlaid it. And she arose
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at midnight, and took
my son from beside me,
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while thine handmaid slept, and
laid it in her bosom, and laid
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her dead child in my bosom.
And when I rose in the morning
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to give my child suck, behold,
it was dead: but when I had
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considered it in the morning,
behold, it was not my son,
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which I did bear. And the other
woman said, Nay; but the living
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is my son, and the dead is thy
son. And this said, No; but the
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dead is thy son, and the living
is my son. Thus they spake
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before the king. Then
said the king, the one saith,
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This is my son that
liveth, and thy son is the dead:
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and the other saith, Nay; but
thy son is the dead, and my son
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is the living. And the
King said, Bring me a sword.
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And they brought a sword before
the king. And the king said,
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Divide the living child in
two, and give half to the one,
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and half to the other.
Then spake the woman whose
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the living child was unto
the king, for her bowels yearned
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upon her son, and she said,
O my lord, give her the living
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child, and in no wise slay it.
But the other said, Let it be
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neither mine nor thine,
but divide it. Then the king
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answered and said, Give her
the living child, and in no wise
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slay it: she is the mother
thereof. And all Israel heard
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of the judgment which the
king had judged; and they feared
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the king: for they saw that
the wisdom of God was in him,
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to do judgment.
We're reading now
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in 1st Kings, chapter 4,
this is the King James Version.
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So King Solomon was king over
all Israel. And these were the
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princes which he had; and
there follows a long list of
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names. We're going to skip past
that, and we're going to pick
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it up in 1st Kings 4, verse
20. Judah and Israel were many,
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as the sand which is by the
sea in multitude, eating and
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drinking and making merry.
And Solomon reigned over all
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kingdoms from the river unto
the land of the Philistines,
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and unto the border of
Egypt: they brought presents,
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and served Solomon all the
days of his life. And Solomon's
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provision for one day was
30 measures of fine flour,
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and threescore measures of meal,
10 fat oxen, and 20 oxen out of
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the pastures, and an
hundred sheep, beside harts,
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and roebucks, and
fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
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For he had dominion over
all the region on this side
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of the river, from Tiphsah even
to Azzah, over all the kings
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on this side the river:
and he had peace on all sides
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round about him. And Judah and
Israel dwelt safely, every man
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under his vine and under
his fig tree, from Dan even to
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Beersheba, all the days of
Solomon. And Solomon had 40,000
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stalls of horses for his
chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.
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And those officers provided
victual for king Solomon,
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and for all that came unto
king Solomon's table, every man
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in his month:
they lacked nothing.
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Thank you for joining with me
today to read the word of God,
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and may God give us the wisdom
that he blessed Solomon with,
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that we may love him with
all of our hearts and serve him
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all our days. Goodbye.
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