World English Bible
1 Kings 3:16
“Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 3
If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.
Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
It happened the third day after I delivered, that this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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