1 Kings 3:15

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13 And I have also ^agiven you what you have not asked: both ^briches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days.

14 So ^aif you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, ^bas your father David walked, then I will ^clengthen your days.”

15 Then Solomon ^aawoke; and indeed it had been a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and ^bmade a feast for all his servants.

Solomon’s Wise Judgment

16 Now two women who were harlots came to the king, and ^astood before him.

17 And one woman said, “O my lord, this woman and I dwell in the same house; and I gave birth while she was in the house.

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1 Kings 3:15

Solomon determined to inaugurate his reign by a grand religious ceremonial at each of the two holy places which at this time divided between them the reverence of the Jews. Having completed the religious service at Gibeon, where was the tabernacle of the congregation, he proceeded to Jerusalem, and sacrificed before the ark of the covenant, which was in Mount Zion II Samuel 6:12. A great feast naturally followed on a large sacrifice of peace-offerings. In these the sacrificer always partook of the flesh of the victim, and he was commanded to call in to the feast the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow Deuteronomy 14:29. Compare II Samuel 6:19; I Chronicles 16:3.

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