Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 3

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1 Kings 3 . 1 , Solomon marries Pharaoh’s daughter; 1 Kings 3 . 2 , High places being in use , Solomon sacrifices at Gibeon; 1 Kings 3 . 5 , Solomon at Gibeon , in the choice which God gave him , preferring wisdom , obtains wisdom , riches , and honour; 1 Kings 3 . 16 , Solomon’s judgment makes him renowned.

1 Kings 3:1

Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.

1 Kings 3:1 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:2

The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.

1 Kings 3:2 · BSB

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It was not right to offer sacrifices in any place but where the tabernacle and ark were; and wherever they were , whether on a high place or a plain , sacrifices might be lawfully offered , previously to building of the temple. The tabernacle was now at Gibeon

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1 Kings 3:3

And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

1 Kings 3:3 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:4

Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.

1 Kings 3:4 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:5

One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, "Ask, and I will give it to you!"

1 Kings 3:5 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:6

Solomon replied, "You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

1 Kings 3:6 · BSB

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or , bounty

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1 Kings 3:7

And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David's place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.

1 Kings 3:7 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:8

Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.

1 Kings 3:8 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:9

Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?"

1 Kings 3:9 · BSB

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Heb. hearing

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1 Kings 3:10

Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had made this request.

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1 Kings 3:11

So God said to him, "Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice—

1 Kings 3:11 · BSB

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Heb. hear

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long life Heb. many days

1 Kings 3:12

behold, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has never been nor will ever be another like you.

1 Kings 3:12 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:13

Moreover, I will give you what you did not request—both riches and honor—so that during all your days no man in any kingdom will be your equal.

1 Kings 3:13 · BSB

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shall not be or , hath not been

1 Kings 3:14

So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days."

1 Kings 3:14 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:15

Then Solomon awoke, and indeed it had been a dream. So he returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he held a feast for all his servants.

1 Kings 3:15 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:16

At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

1 Kings 3:16 · BSB

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The word zanoth , rendered harlots , is here translated by the Targumist , the best judge in this case , pundekon , "tavern-keepers." See note on

  • Joshua 2:1 and see note on Judges 11 . 1. Had these women been harlots , it is not likely that they would have dared to appear before Solomon; nor is it likely that such persons would have been permitted in the reign of David. Their husbands might at this time have been following their necessary occupations in distant parts

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1 Kings 3:17

One woman said, “Please, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth while she was in the house.

1 Kings 3:17 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:20

So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.

1 Kings 3:20 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:21

The next morning, when I got up to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I examined him, I realized that he was not the son I had borne.”

1 Kings 3:21 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:22

“No,” said the other woman, “the living one is my son and the dead one is your son.” But the first woman insisted, “No, the dead one is yours and the living one is mine.” So they argued before the king.

1 Kings 3:22 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:23

Then the king replied, “This woman says, ‘My son is alive and yours is dead,’ but that woman says, ‘No, your son is dead and mine is alive.’”

1 Kings 3:23 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:24

The king continued, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought him a sword,

1 Kings 3:24 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:25

and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”

1 Kings 3:25 · BSB

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This was apparently a very strange decision; but Solomon saw that the only way to discover the real mother was by the affection and tenderness should would necessarily shew to her offspring. The plan was tried , and succeeded; and it was a proof of his sound judgment , penetration , and acquaintance with the human heart , or rather , of his extraordinary and supernatural wisdom. See note on 1 Kings 3 . 28. The two following instances are in some faint manner to be compared to Solomon's decision , inasmuch as they also work upon the human sympathies. Suetonius , in his Life of the emperor Claudian , tells us , that this emperor discovered a woman to be the real mother of a young man , whom she refused to acknowledge , by commanding her to marry him , the proofs being doubtful on both sides; for , rather than commit incest , she confessed the truth. Diodorus Siculus also informs us , that Ariopharnes , king of Thrace , being appointed to decided between three young men , each of whom professed to be the son of the deceased king of the Cimmerians , and claimed the succession , discovered the real son by ordering each to shoot an arrow into the dead body of the king . two of them did this without hesitation; but the real son of the deceased monarch refused

1 Kings 3:26

Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”

1 Kings 3:26 · BSB

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Heb. were hot

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1 Kings 3:27

Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. By no means should you kill him; she is his mother.”

1 Kings 3:27 · BSB

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1 Kings 3:28

When all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.

1 Kings 3:28 · BSB

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in him Heb. in the midst of him

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web6 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations 2 Chronicles 1:1-13 → 1 Kings 3:1-15
Allusions 1 Chronicles 16:39 → 1 Kings 3:4, 1 Chronicles 16:39-40 → 1 Kings 3:4
Trajectories
Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)
Chiasms
Shaped 1 Kings 3:16–27, 1 Kings 3:5–15
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