The wisdom of King Solomon

Children! You know the most famous in history, but also smart and wise king is? Yes! He is David's son Solomon. Said Solomon wrote Proverbs three thousand and five hundred thousand poetry. He was very wise, from the most valuable cedar, long talked about the most minute of hyssop on the wall. They know all the animals, birds, creeping things, and the temperament and habits of fish. So many people and all the king heard the fame of Solomon, like from far away to visit him, hear his words of wisdom, and even find some problems to quiz him. King Solomon could answer them, not of the same can not answer.

admire his wisdom and knowledge. Children! Why is he so intelligent? His wisdom from where come from? Who is born so wise, no! But his divine wisdom. Now I will tell you to listen to the wisdom of King Solomon.

When King David growing old, when, on his son Solomon succeeded him up as king of Israel. One night, the Lord God appeared to Solomon in a dream, he said: "When I give you? You can find me." Solomon said: "Your servant David my father, with honesty, justice, integrity and heart line in front of you and you will follow his line, to his retained it for his kindness, gave him a son sitting on his throne, the same as today. "He added:" The Lord my God, Now you make the continuation of my father as a servant of the king, but I was a young, do not know how to control your people, so give me ask you a clever mind, you can judge between people, can distinguish between good and evil. Otherwise, who judged you this many people? "Solomon ask, is the wisdom of God's people to manage better, and did not seek anything for themselves. God listened very pleased, and said to him: "What you seek is not the longevity, not rich, nor destroy your enemies. But only for God's people have the ability to identify, well, I did as You are asking for your achievements. Behold I give you a heart of wisdom and discernment, even if you do not have a portrait of your past, you do not like your future, you do not ask, I give you. is wealth, glory, so that you live in the world, no one compared with you kings of you if the line of my way, keep my words, just as your father David, the line, I will make you live longer. "see King Solomon's wisdom God gave him. Now I let you hear for example that he is not really very wise.

One day, two women came to see King Solomon, the king stood in front of them. A woman said, my lord! I live with this woman, I had a child. After three days she had a child, both of us live in a house, in addition to both of us, the room then no one else with us. Night, the woman fell asleep, careless on her son, took the child to crushed. Her middle of the night and saw his son was dead, I must take when I was still sleeping, from next to me my son taken away in her arms. To her dead son in my arms. Morning I got up to feed a child nurse, found the child dead, so I carefully you'll see that it is not my son, her arms a child is my child. The woman said: "No! Not! Living child is mine, the dead child is you." This woman said: "The living child is mine, the death of a child is you." They are two people before the king endlessly . King Solomon said: this child is you live, she said that her child is alive. Come Ah! To give me a knife, split in half these children live, one half." Living mother a terrified, and immediately said to the king: "Lord: the living child to the woman stop! must not kill this child." Another woman said that: "This child does not belong to you, I do not go to him to split the strike! "Wang replied:" I said to these children never live to kill his woman, she is the real mother of the child. "king of all Israel heard the judgments, they all feared him, because they saw in Him God's wisdom to the implementation of justice.
Children! Solomon is not a very wise Ah! He also made ​​many great deeds, the most remarkable creation of the universe for the construction of the temple of God, Israel is to worship God, serve God's place. Have the opportunity to tell you to listen to.