New American Standard Bible

1 Kings 3:14-22 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

14. If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days."

15. Then Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and made peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

16. Then two women who were harlots 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. It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.

19. This woman's son died in the night, because she lay on it.

20. So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

21. When I rose in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, he was not my son, whom I had borne."

22. Then the other woman said, "No! For the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son." But the first woman said, "No! For the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son." Thus they spoke before the king.