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1 Kings 3:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" 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. "
1 Kings 3:17
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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.
16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
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.
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.
19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
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1 Kings 3:1
"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."
1 Kings 3:2
"Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days."
1 Kings 3:3
"And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places."
1 Kings 3:4
"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."
1 Kings 3:5
"In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee."
1 Kings 3:6
"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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