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Solomon asks for wisdom

Solomon made an agreement with Pharaoh, who was the king of Egypt.[a] Solomon married Pharaoh's daughter. He brought her to live in the City of David.[b] She lived there until Solomon could finish building his own house, the Lord's temple, and the wall around Jerusalem.

Because there was not yet a temple where people could give honour to the Lord, they offered sacrifices at altars in other places.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:1 In this kind of agreement, their countries agreed to be friends of each other. There should be no wars between them.
  2. 3:1 Solomon's wife lived in her own house in the City of David. She lived there for 13 years, until Solomon built his palace. See 1 Kings 7:1.