These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Kings 3
Tanakh 28 verses
- 1 And became allied to Pharaoh of by marriage, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of , until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of , and the wall of round about.
- 2 Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the of until those days.
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And loved , walking in the statutes of his father; only he sacrificed and offered in the high places.
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Deuteronomy 6:5 Psalm 31:23 1 Corinthians 8:3 Deuteronomy 30:16 Deuteronomy 30:20 1 Kings 3:6 Deuteronomy 10:12 1 Kings 3:14 1 Kings 2:3-4 1 John 5:2-3 1 Kings 11:34 2 Kings 12:3 1 Kings 15:3 1 Kings 11:38 2 Chronicles 17:3-5 1 Chronicles 28:8-9 1 Kings 22:43 Romans 8:28 2 Kings 14:4 James 1:12 2 Samuel 12:24-25 John 14:15 Matthew 22:37 1 John 4:19-20 2 Kings 15:4 James 2:5 2 Kings 18:4 1 Kings 9:4 2 Kings 18:22 Deuteronomy 30:6 John 14:21 1 Kings 11:4 2 Kings 15:35 Mark 12:29-30 1 Kings 15:14 1 Kings 11:6 - 4 And the went to Gibeon to there; for that was the great high place; a thousand burnt-offerings did offer upon that .
- 5 In Gibeon appeared to in a dream by night; and said: ‘Ask what I shall give thee.’
- 6 And said: ‘Thou hast shown unto Thy my father great kindness, according as he walked before Thee in , and in , and in uprightness of with Thee; and Thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that Thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
- 7 And now, O my , Thou hast made Thy instead of my father; and I am but a little child; I not how to go out or come in.
- 8 And Thy is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
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Give Thy therefore an understanding to judge Thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?’
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James 1:5 2 Samuel 14:17 Hebrews 5:14 Psalm 72:1-2 Proverbs 2:3-9 John 5:30 Proverbs 16:16 1 Chronicles 22:12 Psalm 119:34 Isaiah 11:2-4 2 Corinthians 3:5 Psalm 119:144 Ephesians 5:17 2 Chronicles 1:10 James 3:17 Exodus 3:11-12 Proverbs 3:13-18 1 Kings 3:28 Exodus 4:10-13 Proverbs 20:12 1 Chronicles 29:19 Ecclesiastes 7:11 Proverbs 14:8 Psalm 119:73 Jeremiah 1:6 Matthew 3:14 Matthew 3:11 Ecclesiastes 9:15-18 Philippians 1:10 2 Corinthians 2:16 Ecclesiastes 7:19 1 Corinthians 2:14-15 -
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And the speech pleased , that had asked this thing.
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And said unto him: ‘Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern justice;
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behold, I have done according to thy : lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding ; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
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- 13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and —so that there hath not been any among the kings like unto thee—all thy days.
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And if thou wilt walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as thy father did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.’
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Proverbs 3:2 Psalm 91:16 1 Kings 3:6 Proverbs 3:16 1 Kings 15:5 1 Chronicles 28:9 Psalm 21:4 2 Chronicles 34:2 1 Timothy 4:8 1 Kings 9:4-5 Acts 13:22 2 Chronicles 7:17-19 Psalm 132:12 Deuteronomy 5:16 1 Kings 3:3 1 Kings 2:3-4 1 Chronicles 22:12-13 2 Chronicles 17:3-4 Zechariah 3:7 2 Chronicles 29:2 Deuteronomy 25:15 - 15 And awoke, and, behold, it was a dream; and he came to , and stood before the of the of , and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered -offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
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Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the , and stood before him.
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And the one woman said: ‘Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
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- 18 And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, we two in the house.
- 19 And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlay it.
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And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
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And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked well at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I did bear.’
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- 22 And the other woman said: ‘Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son.’ And this said: ‘No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son.’ Thus they spoke before the .
- 23 Then said the : ‘The one saith: This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead; and the other saith: Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.’
- 24 And the said: ‘Fetch me a sword.’ And they brought a sword before the .
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And the said: ‘Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.’
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Then spoke the woman whose the living child was unto the , for her yearned upon her son, and she said: ‘Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it.’ But the other said: ‘It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it.’
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- 27 Then the answered and said: ‘Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.’
- 28 And all heard of the judgment which the had judged; and they feared the ; for they saw that the wisdom of was in him, to do justice.