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1 Malakiym 3

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3:1

The Alliance with Mitzrayim and the High Places

And Shalumoh made affinity with Pharaoh king of Mitzrayim, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of Dawid, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and the wall of Yarushalayim round about.
3:2

The Fragmented Worship

Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, until those days.
3:3
And Shalumoh loved 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, walking in the statutes of Dawid his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
3:4

The Great Altar at Gibeon

And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Shalumoh offer upon that altar.
3:5

The Dream of the Hearing Heart

In Gibeon 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 appeared to Shalumoh in a dream by night: and Alahiym said, "Ask what I shall give thee."
3:6
And Shalumoh said, "Thou hast showed unto thy servant Dawid my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart 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."
3:7
"And now, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 my Alahiym, thou hast made thy servant king instead of Dawid my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in."
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"And thy servant 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 therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?"
3:10

The Pleasure of the Celestial Court

And the speech pleased Adunay, that Shalumoh had asked this thing.
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And Alahiym 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 judgment;"
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"Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee."
3:13
"And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honor: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days."
3:14

The Condition of Longevity

"And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father Dawid did walk, then I will lengthen thy days."
3:15

The Awakening and the Feast in Tziyon

And Shalumoh awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Yarushalayim, and stood before the ark of the covenant of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
3:16

The Jurisprudence of the Two Harlots

Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
3:17
And the one woman said, "O my adun, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house."
3:18
"And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house."
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"And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it."
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"And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine 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 considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear."
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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 spake before the king.
3:23

The Wisdom of the Sword

Then said the king, "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."
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And the king said, "Bring me a sword." And they brought a sword before the king.
3:25
And the king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."
3:26

The Frequency of True Motherhood

Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, "O my adun, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it." But the other said, "Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it."
3:27

The Righteous Verdict

Then the king answered and said, "Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof."
3:28

The Awe of the Nation

And all Yashar'al heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of Alahiym was in him, to do judgment.