12. Behold, I have done as you asked. I have given you a wise, discerning mind, so that no one before you was your equal, nor shall any arise after you equal to you.
13. I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings equal to you all your days.
14. And if you will go My way, keep My statutes and My commandments as your father David did, then I will lengthen your days.
15. Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. He came to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.
16. Then two women who had become mothers out of wedlock came and stood before the king.
17. And one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
18. And the third day after I was delivered, this woman also was delivered. And we were together; no stranger was with us, just we two in the house.
19. And this woman's child died in the night because she lay on him.
20. And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me while your handmaid slept and laid him in her bosom and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21. And when I rose to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I had considered him in the morning, behold, it was not the son I had borne.
22. But the other woman said, No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son! And this one said, No! But the dead son is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.
23. The king said, One says, This is my son that is alive and yours is the dead one. The other woman says, No! But your son is the dead one and mine is the living one.
24. And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword to the king.