1 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.2 The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.3 Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, only he sacrificed and made offerings at the high places.4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.”6 And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and have given him a son to sit on his throne this day.7 And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in.8 And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.9 Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”10 It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.11 And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,12 behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.13 I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.14 And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”15 And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.16 Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.17 The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.18 Then on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And we were alone. There was no one else with us in the house; only we two were in the house.19 And this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on him.20 And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne.”22 But the other woman said, “No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours.” The first said, “No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine.” Thus they spoke before the king.23 Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead’; and the other says, ‘No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.’”24 And the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So a sword was brought before the king.25 And 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 son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.”27 Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.”28 And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
2 Chronicles
1 Salamonnak, Dávid fiának a királyi hatalma megerősödött, mert Istene, az Úr vele volt, és egyre nagyobbá tette.2 Összehívta Salamon egész Izráelt, az ezredeseket, a századosokat, a bírákat és egész Izráel minden főemberét, a családfőket,3 és elment Salamon az egész gyülekezettel együtt a gibeóni áldozóhalomra, mert ott volt Isten kijelentésének a sátra, amelyet Mózes, az Úr szolgája készíttetett a pusztában.4 Az Isten ládáját Dávid már fölvitette Kirjat-Jeárímból, amikor helyet készített annak, ugyanis egy sátrat állíttatott föl neki Jeruzsálemben,5 a rézoltár azonban, amelyet Becalél, Úrí fia, Húr unokája készített, még ott állt az Úr hajléka előtt. Ezt kereste föl Salamon és a gyülekezet.6 Fölment tehát Salamon az Úr színe előtt álló rézoltárhoz, amely a kijelentés sátránál volt, és ezer égőáldozatot mutatott be rajta.7 Azon az éjszakán megjelent Isten Salamonnak, és ezt mondta neki: Kérj valamit, én megadom neked!8 Salamon ezt felelte Istennek: Te nagy szeretettel bántál apámmal, Dáviddal, és engem tettél utána királlyá.9 Most pedig, Uram, Istenem, váljék valóra apámnak, Dávidnak adott ígéreted, mert te tettél engem e nép királyává, akik oly sokan vannak, mint a föld pora.10 Adj azért nekem bölcsességet és értelmet, hogy tudjam ennek a népnek az ügyeit intézni. Különben ki tudná kormányozni a te nagy népedet?11 Isten ezt felelte Salamonnak: Mivel ez a szíved vágya, és nem gazdagságot, vagyont vagy dicsőséget kértél, nem is gyűlölőid életét vagy hosszú életet, hanem bölcsességet és értelmet, hogy kormányozni tudd népemet, amelynek a királyává tettelek,12 ezért megadom neked a bölcsességet és az értelmet, sőt olyan gazdagságot, vagyont és dicsőséget is adok neked, amelyhez fogható nem volt és nem is lesz egy királynak sem, sem előtted, sem utánad.13 Azután visszament Salamon Jeruzsálembe a gibeóni áldozóhalomról, a kijelentés sátra elől, és uralkodott Izráelen.14 Gyűjtött Salamon harci kocsikat és lovasokat. Ezernégyszáz harci kocsija és tizenkétezer lova lett, amelyeket a harci kocsik városaiba rendelt és a király mellé, Jeruzsálembe.15 A király elérte, hogy annyi lett Jeruzsálemben az ezüst és az arany, mint a kő, és annyi lett a cédrus, mint amennyi vadfügefa van az alföldön.16 Salamonnak Egyiptomból, méghozzá Kevéből hozták a lovakat, a király kereskedői szerezték azokat Kevéből megszabott áron:17 egy harci kocsit hatszáz sekel ezüstért hoztak Egyiptomból, egy lovat pedig százötvenért. Ugyancsak az ő közvetítésükkel szállították tovább ezeket a hettita királyoknak és az arám királyoknak.18 Salamon megparancsolta, hogy építsenek házat az Úr nevének tiszteletére, neki magának pedig egy királyi palotát.
