13. But also the things for which you did not ask, I have given to you, namely wealth and glory, so that no one has been like you among the kings in the all days before.
14. And if you will walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my commandments, just as your father walked, I will lengthen your days."
15. Then Solomon awakened, and he understood that it was a dream. And when he had arrived in Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and he offered holocausts and made victims of peace offerings, and he held a great feast for all his servants.
16. Then two women harlots went to the king, and they stood before him.
17. And one of them said: "I beg you, my lord, I and this woman were living in one house, and I gave birth, with her in the room.
18. Then, on the third day after I gave birth, she also gave birth. And we were together, with no other person with us in the house, only the two of us.
19. Then this woman's son died in the night. For while sleeping, she smothered him.
20. And rising up in the silent depths of the night, she took my son from my side, while I, your handmaid, was sleeping, and she set him in her bosom. Then she placed her dead son in my bosom.
21. And when I had arisen in the morning, so that I might give milk to my son, he appeared to be dead. But gazing upon him more diligently in the light of day, I realized that he was not mine, whom I had born."
22. And the other woman responded: "It is not such as you say. Instead, your son is dead, but mine is alive." To the contrary, she said: "You are lying. For my son lives, and your son is dead." And in this manner, they were contending before the king.
23. Then said the king: "This one says, 'My son is alive, and your son is dead.' And the other responds, 'No, instead your son is dead, but mine lives.' "