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"Now, O Lord my God, you have made me king instead of my father, David, but I am like a little child who doesn't know his way around.

"But her baby died during the night when she rolled over on it.

And in the morning when I tried to nurse my son, he was dead! But when I looked more closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn't my son at all."

Then the woman who was the real mother of the living child, and who loved him very much, cried out, "Oh no, my lord! Give her the child—please do not kill him!" But the other woman said, "All right, he will be neither yours nor mine; divide him between us!"

Then the king said, "Do not kill the child, but give him to the woman who wants him to live, for she is his mother!"

But now the Lord my God has given me peace on every side; I have no enemies, and all is well.

These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place, which is in front of the Most Holy Place, but not from the outside. They are still there to this day.

‘From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among any of the tribes of Israel as the place where a Temple should be built to honor my name. But I have chosen David to be king over my people Israel.'"

But the Lord told him, ‘You wanted to build the Temple to honor my name. Your intention is good,

but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.'

"But will God really live on earth? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built!

But in that land of exile, they might turn to you in repentance and pray, ‘We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.'

"But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the commands and decrees I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods,

But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns Solomon had given him, he was not at all pleased with them.

But Solomon did not conscript any of the Israelites for forced labor. Instead, he assigned them to serve as fighting men, government officials, officers and captains in his army, commanders of his chariots, and charioteers.

He had warned Solomon specifically about worshiping other gods, but Solomon did not listen to the Lord 's command.

But for the sake of your father, David, I will not do this while you are still alive. I will take the kingdom away from your son.

But Hadad and a few of his father's royal officials escaped and headed for Egypt. (Hadad was just a boy at the time.)

"Why?" Pharaoh asked him. "What do you lack here that makes you want to go home?" "Nothing," he replied. "But even so, please let me return home."

But I will leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.