Haftorah for Parashat Mikeitz

Torah: Genesis 41:1-44:17 , Haftorah: I Kings 3:15-4:1

Haftorah for Parashat Mikeitz

I Kings 3:15-4:1

3:15 And Solomon awoke, and, behold, it was a dream; and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

> 3:16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 3:17 And 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. 3:18 And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlay it. 3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. 3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked well at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I did bear.' 3:22 And the other woman said: 'Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son.' And this said: 'No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son.' Thus they spoke before the king.

> 3:23 Then said the king: `The one saith: This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead; and the other saith: Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.' 3:24 And the king said: 'Fetch me a sword.' And they brought a sword before the king. 3:25 And the king said: 'Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.' 3:26 Then spoke the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned upon her son, and she said: 'Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it.' But the other said: 'It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it.' 3:27 Then the king answered and said: 'Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.' 3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

> 4:1 And king Solomon was king over all Israel.