VIN(i)
9 So give your servant an understanding mind to govern your people, so I can discern between good and evil. Otherwise, how shall I be able to govern this great people of yours?"
10 The LORD was pleased that Solomon had asked for this,
11 And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;
12 "I will do what you have asked. I will give you more wisdom and understanding than anyone has ever had. There has never been nor will ever be anyone like you.
13 And I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you all your days.
14 And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.
15 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the LORD's covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
16 Then two prostitutes came to the king, and they stood before him.
17 One of them said: "Your Majesty, this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby boy at home while she was there.
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 And the son of this woman died at night, because she laid on it.
20 So she got up in the middle of the night, and she took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she put him in her lap, and she put her dead son in my lap.
21 The next morning, I got up to nurse my son, and he was dead. But when I examined him carefully in the light of day, he turned out not to be my son whom I had borne!"
22 The other woman said: "The living child is mine, and the dead one is yours!" The first woman answered back: "The dead child is yours, and the living one is mine!" They argued before the king.
23 And the king said, This one says, This is my son, the living one, and your son the dead. And that one says, No, but your son is the dead, and my son the living.
24 And the king said—Bring me a sword! So they brought a sword before the king.
25 And the sovereign says, Cut the living child in two; and give half to the one and half to the one.
26 But the woman, whose child was alive, said to the king; (for her bowels were moved upon her child) I beseech thee, my lord, give her the child alive, and do not kill it. But the other said: Let it be neither mine nor thine; but divide it.
27 The king announced his decision: "Give the living child to the first woman. Don't kill him. She is his mother."
28 And when all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had given, they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to exercise justice.