Hey guys, welcome back. We're in First Kings chapter three today, and we're going to talk about a

crazy story, crazy. And yet it reveals a wisdom about Solomon that typifies the wisdom of our

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Hey, friends, I appreciate you coming back today for the episode. And I've really been,

I've really been looking forward to talking about this strange passage of scripture found

in the latter half of First Kings chapter three. Here's the context. Solomon has been given this marvelous gift from God.

It's a gift that includes things like future riches and long life and all of that.

But the request of Solomon and the gift from God was wisdom, understanding the ability to discern and to make

proper judgments so that he can effectively rule the people of God. And what we find in the second

half of First Kings III is this really weird situation where the wisdom of God in Solomon is, becomes obvious to all the

people. And I want us to to look at the case and make a couple applications and just see

how wisdom fleshes out in real life. Look at verse 16 of 1 Kings

3. Here's the story. Then came there two women that were harlots or prostitutes onto the king

and stood before him. The one woman said, oh my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house,

and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. So we both had children. And it came to pass the

third day after that I was delivered that this woman was delivered also. So there it is. We had children three days

apart. And we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.

And this woman's child died in the night because she overlaid it. So unfortunately, what happened was this woman rolled over in her sleep and the baby suffocated,

this infant and this sad and tragic.

But here's what happened, said the one woman.

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