Solomon allied himself by marriage with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He married Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her to the City of David [to live there] until he had finished building his palace, and the House of GOD, and the walls around Jerusalem.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויתחתן
874
שלמה
375
אתפרעה
756
מלך
90
מצרים
380
ויקח
124
אתבתפרעה
1158
ויביאה
34
אלעיר
311
דוד
14
עד
74
כלתו
456
לבנות
488
אתביתו
819
ואתבית
819
יהוה
26
ואתחומת
861
ירושלם
586
סביב
74
I Kings 3:2
Gematria: 2257
רקהעםמזבחיםבבמותכילאנבנהביתלשםיהוהעדהימיםההםפ
The people, however, continued to offer sacrifices at the open shrines, because up to that time no house had been built for GOD’s name.
Solomon said, “You dealt most graciously with Your servant my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness and righteousness and in integrity of heart. You have continued this great kindness to him by giving him a son to occupy his throne, as is now the case.
And now, my ETERNAL God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David; but I am a young lad, with no experience in leadership.bwith no experience in leadership Lit. “do not know going out and coming in”; cf. Num. 27.17.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ועתה
481
יהוה
26
אלהי
46
אתה
406
המלכת
495
אתעבדך
497
תחת
808
דוד
14
אבי
13
ואנכי
87
נער
320
קטן
159
לא
31
אדע
75
צאת
491
ובא
9
I Kings 3:8
Gematria: 3349
ועבדךבתוךעמךאשרבחרתעםרבאשרלאימנהולאיספרמרב
Your servant finds himself in the midst of the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to be numbered or counted.
Grant, then, Your servant an understanding mindcunderstanding mind Lit. “listening heart.” to judge Your people, to distinguish between good and bad; for who can judge this vast people of Yours?”
God said to him, “Because you asked for this—you did not ask for long life, you did not ask for riches, you did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you asked for discernment in dispensing justice—
I now do as you have spoken. I grant you a wise and discerning mind; there has never been anyone like you before, nor will anyone like you arise again.
Then Solomon awoke: it was a dream! He went to Jerusalem, stood before the Ark of the Covenant of the Sovereign One, and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented offerings of well-being; and he made a banquet for all his courtiers.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקץ
206
שלמה
375
והנה
66
חלום
84
ויבוא
25
ירושלם
586
ויעמד
130
לפני
170
ארון
257
בריתאדני
677
ויעל
116
עלות
506
ויעש
386
שלמים
420
ויעש
386
משתה
745
לכלעבדיופ
252
I Kings 3:16
Gematria: 2956
אזתבאנהשתיםנשיםזנותאלהמלךותעמדנהלפניו
Later two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
On the third day after I was delivered, this woman also gave birth to a child. We were alone; there was no one else with us in the house, just the two of us in the house.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהי
31
ביום
58
השלישי
655
ללדתי
474
ותלד
440
גםהאשה
354
הזאת
413
ואנחנו
121
יחדו
28
איןזר
268
אתנו
457
בבית
414
זולתי
453
שתיםאנחנו
865
בבית
414
I Kings 3:19
Gematria: 2251
וימתבןהאשההזאתלילהאשרשכבהעליו
During the night this woman’s child died, because she lay on it.
She arose in the night and took my son from my side while your maidservant was asleep, and laid him in her bosom; and she laid her dead son in my bosom.
The other woman spoke up, “No, the live one is my son, and the dead one is yours!” But the first insisted, “No, the dead boy is yours; mine is the live one!” And they went on arguing before the king.
The king said, “One says, ‘This is my son, the live one, and the dead one is yours’; and the other says, ‘No, the dead boy is yours, mine is the live one.’”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
המלך
95
זאת
408
אמרת
641
זהבני
74
החי
23
ובנך
78
המת
445
וזאת
414
אמרת
641
לא
31
כי
30
בנך
72
המת
445
ובני
68
החיפ
103
I Kings 3:24
Gematria: 1221
ויאמרהמלךקחוליחרבויבאוהחרבלפניהמלך
So the king gave the order, “Fetch me a sword.” A sword was brought before the king,
But the woman whose son was the live one pleaded with the king, for she was overcome with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she cried, “give her the live child; only don’t kill it!” The other insisted, “It shall be neither yours nor mine; cut it in two!”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותאמר
647
האשה
311
אשרבנה
558
החי
23
אלהמלך
126
כינכמרו
346
רחמיה
263
עלבנה
157
ותאמר
647
בי
12
אדני
65
תנולה
491
אתהילוד
456
החי
23
והמת
451
אלתמיתהו
892
וזאת
414
אמרת
641
גםלי
83
גםלך
93
לא
31
יהיה
30
גזרו
216
I Kings 3:27
Gematria: 2924
ויעןהמלךויאמרתנולהאתהילודהחיוהמתלאתמיתהוהיאאמוס
Then the king spoke up. “Give the live child to her,” he said, “and do not put it to death; she is its mother.”
When all Israel heard the decision that the king had rendered, they stood in awe of the king; for they saw that he possessed divine wisdom to execute justice.