1 Salomo sai faraon tyttären vaimokseen; näin hänestä tuli Egyptin kuninkaan vävy. Hän toi vaimonsa Daavidin kaupunkiin siksi aikaa, että sai valmiiksi palatsinsa, Herran temppelin ja Jerusalemin ympärysmuurin.

2 Kansa uhrasi edelleenkin uhrikukkuloilla, koska Herralle omistettua temppeliä ei vielä ollut rakennettu.

3 Salomo rakasti Herraa ja noudatti isänsä Daavidin säädöksiä. Silti hän uhrasi ja suitsutti kukkuloilla.

4 Kuningas meni Gibeoniin uhraamaan, sillä siellä oli tärkein uhrikukkula. Salomo uhrasi sen alttarilla tuhat polttouhria.

7 Herra, minun Jumalani, sinä olet tehnyt minusta kuninkaan isäni Daavidin jälkeen, vaikka olen vain nuori poika, joka ei tiedä minne mennä, mitä tehdä.

8 Palvelijasi on keskellä kansaa, jonka olet valinnut, keskellä ihmispaljoutta, jolla ei ole mittaa eikä määrää.

10 Tämä pyyntö oli Herralle mieleen,

12 minä teen niin kuin pyysit. Minä annan sinulle niin viisaan ja ymmärtäväisen sydämen, ettei kaltaistasi ole ennen ollut eikä ole jälkeesikään tuleva.

13 Mutta minä annan sinulle myös sellaista, mitä et pyytänyt: annan rikkautta ja kunniaa, niin ettei kuninkaiden joukossa koko elinaikanasi ole sinulle vertaa.

15 Salomo heräsi; tämä oli tapahtunut unessa. Hän palasi Jerusalemiin, meni Herran liitonarkun eteen ja uhrasi polttouhreja ja yhteysuhreja ja järjesti pidot koko väelleen.

16 Noihin aikoihin kuninkaan puheille tuli kaksi porttoa. He astuivat hänen eteensä,

18 Ja kun oli kulunut kaksi päivää siitä kun minä synnytin, silloin myös tuo nainen sai lapsen. Me olimme kahden, talossa ei ollut ketään muuta.

19 Tuon naisen poika kuoli yöllä, hän oli nukkuessaan tukahduttanut sen.

20 Silloin hän nousi keskellä yötä ja otti poikani minun vierestäni. Minä nukuin, ja niin hän pani lapsen viereensä makaamaan ja asetti kuolleen poikansa minun viereeni.

28 Kautta koko Israelin levisi tieto tuomiosta, jonka kuningas oli antanut. Kaikki alkoivat kunnioittaa kuningasta, sillä he näkivät nyt, että hän oli saanut Jumalalta viisauden tuomita ja hallita oikein.

1 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, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem. 2 However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name. 3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. 4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. 5 In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask for what I should give you."

6 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. 7 Now, Yahweh 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. 8 Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude. 9 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?"

10 This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. 11 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, 12 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. 13 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. 14 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."

15 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

16 Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him. 17 The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house. 18 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. 19 This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it. 20 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. 21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore."

22 The other woman said, "No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son."

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.

23 Then the king said, "One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’"

24 The king said, "Get me a sword." So they brought a sword before the king.

25 The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."

26 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!"

But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him."

27 Then the king answered, "Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother."

28 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.