9. Therefore, give to your servant a teachable heart, so that he may be able to judge your people, and to discern between good and evil. For who will be able to judge this people, your people, who are so many?"
10. And the word was pleasing before the Lord, that Solomon had requested this kind of thing.
11. And the Lord said to Solomon: "Since you have requested this word, and you have not asked for many days or for wealth for yourself, nor for the lives of your enemies, but instead you have requested for yourself wisdom in order to discern judgment:
12. behold, I have done for you according to your words, and I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so much so that there has been no one like you before you, nor anyone who will rise up after you.
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.