13. Too, what you have not asked I give to you: both riches and honor, so that no man among the kings will be like you all of your days.
14. If you will walk in my ways by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David your father walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
15. Then Solomon awoke, and look, it was a dream, and he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and he offered burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings, and he held a feast for all of his servants.
16. Then two prostitutes came to the king, and they stood before him.
17. The one woman said, “Please my lord, I and this woman are living in one house, and I gave birth, with her in the house.
18. It happened on the third day after my giving birth, this woman also gave birth, and we were together. There was not anyone with us in the house, only the two of us were in the house.
19. Then the son of this woman died in the night because she laid on him.
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. When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead! When I looked closely at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I had borne.”
22. Then the other woman said, “No, for my son is the living one, and your son is the dead one.” The other kept on saying, “No, for your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one,” and so they argued in front of the king.
23. Then the king said, “This one is saying, ‘This is my son, the living one, but your son is the dead one,’ and the other one keeps saying, ‘But no! Your son is the dead one, and my son is living!’ ”
24. So the king said, “Bring me a sword,” and they brought the sword before the king.
25. Then the king said, “Divide the living child into two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”
26. Then the woman whose son was the living one spoke to the king because her compassion was aroused for her son, and she said, “Please, my lord, give her the living child, but certainly do not kill him!” The other one was saying, “As for me, so for you! Divide him!”
27. Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to her, and do not kill him; she is his mother.”