1 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Subtitles By: DLM Movies, Dec 2011 2 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Shortly after Solomon is anointed king, the Lord appeared to King Solomon in a dream and said... 3 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,000 GOD: Ask what I shall give you. 4 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:04,000 You have shown your servant David, my father, great mercy as he walked before you in truth and righteousness; 5 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,000 and you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 6 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:20,000 And now, O LORD my God, you have made me king instead of David my father: but I am just a little child and I know not what to do. 7 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Give me an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may understand between good and bad: 8 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 for who is able to judge so great a people? 9 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 NARRATOR: Hearing this for Solomon, God was pleased and said… 10 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 GOD: Solomon, because you have asked for this, and you have not asked for a long life; 11 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:44,000 GOD: neither have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the death of your enemies; 12 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,000 GOD: but you have asked for an understanding in order to carry out lawfully judgment; 13 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,000 GOD: I have done according to your words: 14 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,000 GOD: I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; 15 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,000 GOD: so that there is none like you, neither after you will there be any like you. 16 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:05,000 GOD: And I have also given you what you have not asked for, both riches, and honour: 17 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 GOD: so that there will not be any among the kings like you. 18 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:14,000 GOD: And if you will walk in my ways, and keep my statutes and my commandments, 19 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 GOD: as your father David did, then I will lengthen your days. 20 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,000 NARRATOR: And Solomon awoke from his dream. 21 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,000 NARRATOR: Later, Solomon went to Jerusalem, and stood before the Ark of the Covenant. 22 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,000 NARRATOR: He offered up burnt offerings, and offered up peace offerings. 23 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,000 While there, two women came to him and said… 24 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:48,000 King Solomon, I and this woman live in one house; and I had a child when she was in the house. 25 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:54,000 And on the third day after I had my child, this woman also had a child: 26 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,000 and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house. 27 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 28 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,000 And she got up at midnight, and took my son from beside me, and laid her dead child beside me. 29 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,000 And when I got up in the morning, my child was dead: 30 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:17,000 but when I had considered it in the morning, I realized, the dead child it was not my son. 31 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,000 No; the living child is my son, and the dead is her son. 32 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,000 No; but the dead child is your son, and the living is my son. 33 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,000 So you say, this is your son that lives, and her son is the dead one: 34 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:37,000 and the other says, No; but her son is the dead one, and your son is the living one. 35 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Bring me a sword. Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. 36 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 NARRATOR: Then the first woman said to the King Solomon… 37 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,000 O king, give her the living child, but don’t kill it. 38 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 NARRATOR: But the other woman said… 39 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Let it be neither mine nor her’s, but divide it. 40 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Give the first woman the living child, and in no way hurt it: she is the true mother. 41 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 NARRATOR: And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had done; and they feared the king: 42 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,000 NARRATOR: for they knew the wisdom of God was in him, to do such a judgment. 43 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,000 NARRATOR: In this story, we learn that we need to go to God for our daily wisdom. 44 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:25,000 NARRATOR: In James 1:5 the bible says, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,..." 45 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:31,000 NARRATOR: "...that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."