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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt and married his daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he finished building his palace and the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and the wall around Jerusalem. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The people, however, were still sacrificing at the high places, because a temple had not yet been built for the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Solomon showed his love for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> by walking according to the instructions given him by his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">At Gibeon the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, &#8220;Ask for whatever you want me to give you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Solomon answered, &#8220;You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So God said to him, &#8220;Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1KI.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for&#8212;both wealth and honor&#8212;so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.&#8221; </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Solomon awoke&#8212;and he realized it had been a dream.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.3.15"><span class="content">He returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord&#8217;s covenant and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he gave a feast for all his court.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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