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I Kings Chapter 3

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I Kings

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In this chapter Solomon begins his long reign and is given the command to build a temple for the Lord. He is described as a wise and just king who receives divine guidance. The focus is on the foundation of the temple and the establishment of Solomon's rule.

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(1) And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
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II Chronicles 18:1Ezra 9:14I Kings 7:8I Kings 9:24I Kings 11:1II Samuel 5:7I Chronicles 11:7I Kings 7:1I Kings 7:2I Kings 7:3I Kings 7:4I Kings 7:5

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Ezekiel 41:12Luke 12:53I Kings 6:5Ezekiel 46:23Deuteronomy 13:7Genesis 36:2

(2) Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
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I Kings 22:43Leviticus 17:3Leviticus 17:4Leviticus 17:5Leviticus 17:6Leviticus 26:30Deuteronomy 12:2Deuteronomy 12:3Deuteronomy 12:4Deuteronomy 12:5II Chronicles 33:17I Kings 5:3

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II Kings 15:35II Chronicles 33:19II Kings 12:3II Kings 15:4II Kings 17:32

(3) And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
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Deuteronomy 6:5Deuteronomy 10:12Deuteronomy 30:6Deuteronomy 30:16Deuteronomy 30:20II Samuel 12:24II Samuel 12:25Psalms 31:23Matthew 22:37Mark 12:29Mark 12:30Romans 8:28

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II Kings 12:3II Kings 15:4II Kings 15:35II Kings 23:5I Samuel 20:17Malachi 1:2

(4) And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
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I Kings 9:2Joshua 9:3Joshua 10:2I Chronicles 16:39I Chronicles 21:29II Chronicles 1:3II Chronicles 1:7II Chronicles 1:8II Chronicles 1:9II Chronicles 1:10II Chronicles 1:11II Chronicles 1:12

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I Kings 8:64II Chronicles 7:7Numbers 29:39Leviticus 7:29Leviticus 19:5Numbers 6:17

(5) In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
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I Kings 9:2Genesis 28:12Genesis 28:13Numbers 12:6Job 33:14Job 33:15Matthew 1:20Matthew 2:13Matthew 2:19II Chronicles 1:7II Chronicles 1:8II Chronicles 1:9

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Genesis 40:5I Kings 9:2Genesis 41:11II Chronicles 1:7II Chronicles 7:12I Kings 2:22

(6) And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
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Numbers 12:7II Samuel 7:5II Samuel 7:8II Samuel 7:9II Samuel 7:10II Samuel 7:11II Samuel 7:12II Samuel 12:7II Samuel 12:8II Samuel 22:47II Samuel 22:48II Samuel 22:49

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Isaiah 16:5Proverbs 20:28James 2:13I Kings 8:25II Chronicles 6:16II Chronicles 11:17

(7) And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
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Daniel 2:21Daniel 4:25Daniel 4:32Daniel 5:18Daniel 5:21I Chronicles 29:1Job 32:6Job 32:7Job 32:8Ecclesiastes 10:16Jeremiah 1:6Matthew 18:3

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Isaiah 3:24II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11II Kings 4:34Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33

(8) And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
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Exodus 19:5Exodus 19:6Deuteronomy 7:6Deuteronomy 7:7Deuteronomy 7:8I Samuel 12:22Psalms 78:71Genesis 13:16Genesis 15:5Genesis 22:17I Chronicles 21:2I Chronicles 21:5

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Genesis 32:12Judges 20:15Ecclesiastes 1:15

(9) Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
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I Chronicles 22:12I Chronicles 29:19II Chronicles 1:10Psalms 119:34Psalms 119:73Psalms 119:144Proverbs 2:3Proverbs 2:4Proverbs 2:5Proverbs 2:6Proverbs 2:7Proverbs 2:8

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Exodus 18:22Judges 2:18Judges 11:27I Samuel 2:25I Samuel 24:15Psalms 7:8

(10) And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
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Proverbs 15:8

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I Kings 3:11II Chronicles 1:11I Kings 10:13I Kings 1:51I Kings 1:53II Chronicles 9:1

(11) And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
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Psalms 4:6Proverbs 16:31Matthew 20:21Matthew 20:22Romans 8:26James 4:2James 4:3I Kings 3:9

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II Chronicles 1:11I Kings 3:13Mark 9:21Genesis 24:47Genesis 26:7Genesis 32:29

(12) Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
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Psalms 10:17Isaiah 65:24Romans 8:26Romans 8:27I John 5:14I John 5:15I Kings 3:28I Kings 2:6I Kings 2:9I Kings 4:29I Kings 4:30I Kings 4:31

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Deuteronomy 4:6Proverbs 1:5

(13) And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
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Psalms 84:11Psalms 84:12Matthew 6:33Romans 8:32I Corinthians 3:22I Corinthians 3:23Ephesians 3:20I Kings 4:21I Kings 4:22I Kings 4:23I Kings 4:24I Kings 10:23

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I Kings 3:11II Chronicles 1:11Proverbs 8:18

(14) And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
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I Kings 2:3I Kings 2:4I Chronicles 22:12I Chronicles 22:13I Chronicles 28:9II Chronicles 7:17II Chronicles 7:18II Chronicles 7:19Psalms 132:12Zechariah 3:7I Kings 3:3I Kings 9:4

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I Kings 6:12I Kings 11:38Zechariah 3:7Exodus 15:26I Kings 9:4Deuteronomy 26:17

(15) And 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 up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
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Genesis 41:7Jeremiah 31:26II Samuel 6:17I Chronicles 16:1I Chronicles 16:2I Kings 8:63I Kings 8:65Leviticus 3:1Leviticus 3:2Leviticus 3:3Leviticus 3:4Leviticus 3:5

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I Kings 8:64II Chronicles 7:7Numbers 29:39Ezekiel 45:17II Samuel 6:17I Kings 8:63

(16) Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
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Leviticus 19:29Deuteronomy 23:17Joshua 2:1Judges 11:1Exodus 18:13Exodus 18:16Numbers 27:2

(17) And the 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.
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Genesis 43:20Romans 13:7

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11II Kings 4:34

(18) And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
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Revelation 8:12Exodus 18:10Judges 12:3II Chronicles 28:5II Samuel 18:2Ezekiel 5:2

(19) And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11II Kings 4:34

(20) And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
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Job 24:13Job 24:14Job 24:15Job 24:16Job 24:17Psalms 139:11Matthew 13:25John 3:20

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Exodus 4:7Ruth 4:16Genesis 22:9Genesis 41:48Exodus 21:30I Kings 17:19

(21) And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
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Genesis 21:7I Samuel 1:23Lamentations 4:3Lamentations 4:4

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Genesis 21:14Genesis 22:3Exodus 12:10Exodus 34:2Numbers 9:21Deuteronomy 28:67

(22) And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
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I Kings 3:23I Kings 3:24

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Leviticus 14:6I Kings 3:26Ecclesiastes 9:4Isaiah 38:19Ezekiel 1:13Ezekiel 1:15

(23) Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
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I Kings 3:22

(24) And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
(25) And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
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Proverbs 25:8

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Exodus 25:10Exodus 37:1I Kings 3:26Zechariah 14:8II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11

(26) Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
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Genesis 43:30Isaiah 49:15Jeremiah 31:20Hosea 11:8Philippians 1:8Philippians 2:1I John 3:17Psalms 39:3Romans 1:31II Timothy 3:3

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11I Kings 3:27II Kings 4:34I Kings 3:25Genesis 38:25

(27) Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
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I Kings 3:26Luke 12:53II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11Psalms 131:2Matthew 1:18

(28) And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
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Exodus 14:31Joshua 4:14I Samuel 12:18I Chronicles 29:24Proverbs 24:21I Kings 3:9I Kings 3:10I Kings 3:11I Kings 3:12Ezra 7:25Ecclesiastes 7:19Daniel 2:21

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Exodus 28:30Deuteronomy 1:17Job 36:17Psalms 99:4Isaiah 28:6Habakkuk 1:4

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