THE SLAVONIC LIFE OF SOLOMON
(...) And at that time Solomon gave a great feast to his people. Then brought before the king two female prostitutes, and one woman said, "I am in trouble, my lord. I and this friend of mine - we live in the same house, where both were born. I have a son. And on the third day after I gave birth, and the woman gave birth to a son. We just live together, and there is no one with us in our home. That night, the woman's son died because she overlaid it. And now, standing in the night, she took my hand and put my boy to sleep in his bed, and laid her dead boy to me. I got up in the morning to feed the baby and found him dead. Then I figured out that it was not my son, which I did bear. " And the other woman said, "No, my son is alive, and it's your dead." And they argued before the king.
And the king said to them: "So you say," This is my son that liveth, and her dead, "- and she said," No, my son is alive and your dead. '" And the king said to the servants, "cutting of the living boy in two, and give half of it, and half of that. And dead, too, cut, give him half of this and half of that. "
And said the woman, whose son was alive, for in the confusion came from her soul of her son, and said, "May I be in trouble, my lord. Give her the boy did not kill him. " And the other woman said, "Let it be neither mine nor her! Cut it in half. " The king answered and said: "Give the living baby woman, and said:" Give it to her, not kill him. " Give it to her, because she - his mother. "
Israel heard about the court which tried the king, and they were filled with all those Tsar, for they knew that he was given a sense of God, to do judgment and justice.
FOR HELP THE PHARAOH
Solomon married the daughter of Pharaoh, when he was building the Holy of Holies. And he sent his ambassador to him, saying: "My father in law! Came to help me. " And the six hundred men chose to learn through astrology, that they will die in the year - I wanted to test the wisdom of Solomon. When they were brought to Solomon, he saw them from a distance and ordered all of them to make a shroud. He put his to him and sent his ambassador to Pharaoh, saying: "My father in law! If you have nothing to bury their dead, so here's a dress. Do yourself a bury them. "
LEGEND HOW WAS TAKEN Kitovras Solomon
When Solomon built the Holy of Holies, it took him a question Kitovras. One told him where he lives, he said - in a desert far. Then the wise Solomon planned to forge the iron chain and an iron hoop, and on it wrote spell the name of God, and sent the first of his boyars and the servants, and ordered to carry wine and honey, and took with sheepskins. Kitovras came to housing, to the three wells it, but it was not there. And as directed by Solomon poured into those pits wine and honey, and the top covered in sheepskin wells. In two wells poured wine, and a third med. Themselves, hiding, watching from a hiding place when it comes to drinking water wells. And soon he came, clung to the water and began to drink and said, "Everyone who drinks wine is not wise." But he got sick drinking the water, and he said, "You - the wine, laughing people heart" - and drank all three wells. And wanted to sleep a little bit, and sort out his wine, and he slept soundly. Boyar is going up, tightly bound him on the neck, hands and legs. And he woke up, he wanted to rush. And the lord said to him, "Mr. Solomon to spell the name of God written on the chains, which are now on you." He also saw them myself, meekly went to Jerusalem to the king.
Temper as it was like that. He did not go through the curves, but - only direct. And when they came to Jerusalem, to clear the path in front of him and pulled down the house, because he did not go around. And came to the house of a widow. And ran, the widow cried, begging Kitovras: "Sir, I am a widow poor. Do not hurt me! "He twisted around the corner, not sostupyas of the way, and broke his ribs. And he said: "A soft tongue breaks the bone." When led him through the auction, then, hearing the man said: "Is there no shoes for seven years?" - Kitovras laughed. And when he saw another man, vorozhaschego, laughed. And having seen a wedding consult, wept. But when he saw the way people wandering off the road, he sent it to the road. And they brought him to the Tsar's court.
The first day did not lead them to Solomon. And Kitovras said: "Why not call me to his king?" They said to him: "The census it yesterday." Kitovras he took a stone and put on another stone. Solomon told how he entered Kitovras. And the king said, "tells me to drink drink drink." And the next day did not call him to his king. And Kitovras asked, "Why not taking me to the king, and why I do not see his face?" And they said, "dog-sick king, because that ate a lot yesterday." Then took Kitovras stone from stone.
On the third day, said: "He is calling you to the king." He also measured the rod in four cubits, went to the king, and bowed in silence before the king threw a rod. Then the king in his wisdom explained his boyars, which means the rod, and told: "God has given you to possess the universe, and you're not satisfied, and I was caught." And Solomon said unto him, "Do not lead her on a whim I love you, but to ask how to build a Holy of Holies. Brought you to the Lord's command, because not allowing me to cut stone with iron. "
And Kitovras said: "There is a small bird named nail Shamir. Stores it in the nest of a field cock his rock on the mountain in the wilderness of the future. " Solomon sent a nobleman with his servants, at the direction of Kitovras, to nest. A boyar Kitovras gave clear glass and told him to hide the nest: "When will fly Kokot, cover glass that slot." Lord went to the nest, and in it - chicks small cocotte also flew over the stern. And he laid the glass mouth of the socket. Wait a bit, and Kokot arrived, he wanted to get into the nest. Chicks peep through the window, and he said to him not to go. Kept Shamir at a certain place, and brought to the nest, and put them on the glass, but it sit. Then the people shouted, and he was released. And he took, lord brought to Solomon.
Solomon then asked Kitovras: "Why do you laugh when people ask shoes for seven years?" - "I saw on him - said Kitovras - that will not live seven days." The king sent to check and found that. And Solomon said, "Why do you laugh when people used enchantments?" Kitovras answered: "He told people about the secret, and he did not know that under it - a cache of gold." And Solomon said, "Go and see." Tested, and proved to be so. And when the king asked, "Why are crying, seeing the wedding?" Kitovras said: "saddened because he will not live fiance and thirty days." Checked the king, and was so. And when the king asked, "Why a drunken man brought to the road?" Kitovras replied: "I heard from heaven that the man is virtuous and should serve him."
Kitovras Solomon had stayed until the end of the Holy of Holies.
Kitovras Solomon once said, "Now I see that your strength - as well as human, and no more of our power, but the same." Kitovras said to him: "King, if you want to see what my strength, take off my chain and give me his ring with his hands, then you will see my power." Solomon removed his iron chain, and gave him the ring. And he swallowed the ring, stretched out his arm, swung and hit Solomon, and threw it on the edge of the Promised Land. Found out about it, sages and scribes and spotted Solomon.
Always covered Solomon Kitovras fear of the night. The king built the bed and ordered sixty strong young men standing around with swords. Wherefore it is said in the Scriptures: "The bed of Solomon, sixty brave young men from Israel and from the north country."
About two-headed husband and his children
Kitovras same, going to the people, gave Solomon a man with two heads. Caught the man in Solomon. Solomon asked him: "Are you from the kind of people? You're a man or a demon? "The man replied," I - of people living under the ground. " And the king said to him: "Do you have the sun and the moon?" He said, "From your sun rises in the west of us, and comes to your east. So when you have a day, then we have the night. And when you have a night, then we have day. " And the king gave him a wife. And there were born two sons: one with two heads, and the other with one. And their father had a lot of good. And their father died. Headed said to his brother: "We divide the property on the head." A younger brother said, "are two of us. Divide the property in half. " They went to court to the king. Disbud said to the king: "We are two brothers. We need to divide the property in half. " And that, the two-headed, said the king, "I have two heads, and I want to take two beats." Then the king commanded in his wisdom apply vinegar and said, "Are these two heads of different bodies; polyu me just vinegar per head: if you do not feel the other head, two parts take two heads. And if you feel the other head pouring vinegar, then, both the head of one of the body. Then take a share. " When poured vinegar on one head, another squealed. And the king said, "If you have one body, take one share." So judge between them, King Solomon.
MYSTERIES MALKATOSHKI
Yuzha was named queen inoplemennitsa Malkatoshka. She came to prove Solomon with hard questions. She was very wise. And they offered him gifts of gold twenty kapy, a lot of potions and wood negniyuschego. Solomon, having heard about the arrival of the Queen, sat in the hall with a floor made of clear glass on the platform, wanting to try it. She saw that the king is sitting in the water, picked up his clothes in front of him. And he saw that she had a beautiful face, her body is hairy, like a brush. These hair she bewitches men who used to come to her. Solomon said his wise men: "Prepare the room and ointment zeliem and strike her body to hair fell out." And the wise men, and scribes told him that he met with her. Conceived by him, she went to the land and gave birth to a son, and it was Nebuchadnezzar.
That's what it was a mystery to Solomon. She gathered the boys and girls dressed in the same clothes, and said to the king: "You will be examined by his wisdom, that boys and girls are." The king in his wisdom ordered to bear fruit, and emptied them in front of them. Boys started picking up in the floors of clothes, and the girls in the sleeves. And Solomon said, "This is the boys, and this - the girls." She marveled because of his cunning.
The next day she gathered the young men are circumcised and uncircumcised, and Solomon said: "We will understand that circumcised and uncircumcised men are." Then the king commanded the bishop to make the holy crown, on which was written the word of God, which Balaam was turned away from sorcery. Circumcised youths rose and fell before the uncircumcised crown. It is this very surprised.
Make come true sages her crafty Solomon: "We have a well away from the city. His wisdom guess what, you can drag it to the city? "Crafty as Solomon, realizing that this can not be said to them:" Weave bran rope, and we dragged a pit in your city. "
Once again, it will make come true the wise: "If cornfield porastet knives than able to shake it?" They said, 'Donkey's horn. " And the wise men said to her, "Where are the horns of a donkey?" They said, 'Where's cornfield bear knives? "
Make come true, and more: "If rots salt than you can salt it?" They said, "Maw mule took, it should be salt." And they said, "But where a mule giving birth?" They said, 'Where's the salt decay? "
The queen, seeing the mansion started, and a lot of food, and how are people to, and how are his servants, and their apparel, and drink, and the sacrifices they brought to the house of God, said, "Truly speech I heard in mine own land of thy wisdom. And I did not have faith speeches until I came and saw with my own eyes. It turns out that was not said to me and a half. Benefit to the men of thy hear thy wisdom. "
King Solomon gave the queen of Malkatoshka name and all she asked. And she went to her own land and his people.
The inheritance of three brothers
In the days of Solomon was a man who had three sons. Dying, the man called them to him and said to them: "I have a treasure in the earth. In the place, - he said, - three vessels are on each other. After the death of my eldest shall take the upper, middle - middle, and the smaller one - the bottom. " After his father's death his sons opened the treasure in the presence of people. And it was in the top container full of gold, full of bones in the middle, and the bottom is full of earth. These brothers began to quarrel, saying, "You - a son, just take the gold, and we - no sons?" And they went to court to Solomon. And they reasoned Solomon that there is gold - the older, cattle and servants - the average - according to the bones, and that the vineyards, cornfields and grain - the smallest. And he said to them, "Your father was an intelligent man and you are satisfied with life."
On three wayfarers
Three people were walking their way, carrying their belts gold. Pausing for a Saturday stay in the wilderness, they conferred and decided: "Hide the gold in the cave, if robbers attack, we'll run away, and it will be saved." Dig a hole, they put their belts in the cache. In the night, when the two friends were asleep, the third, feeding evil thought, stood up and perepryatat belt elsewhere. And when, after a rest, come to a hiding place to take your belt, do not find them, they cried out all at once, the villain as he yelled louder two others. And all returned home. And they said, "Come to Solomon and tell him about our problem." And they came to Solomon, saying, "I do not know, O king, it took an animal, bird, or whether an angel. Tell us, O king. " He's in his wisdom said to them: "I'll find you tomorrow. But once you have the travelers, I beg you, explain to me:
A young man engaged to a beautiful girl, gave her an engagement ring, without the knowledge of her father and mother. This young man went to another land, and there married. His father gave the girl is married. And when he wanted to copulate with her fiance, she cried and said: "Shame I did not tell his father that he was engaged to another. Fear God, come to my Fiance, ask his permission: I'll let you in the words of his wife. " Was about a young man, and took a lot of good and the girl went there. And that allowed him: "Let it be your wife, once you get it." The bridegroom and said to her, "go back and re-arrange the wedding." And when they went home back, they met a rapist and his men, and took him and the girl, and with the good. And wanted the robber to create violence on the girl, and she cried and told the robber that she went for a permit and was still with her husband in bed. Surprised robber and told her husband, "Take your wife and go with her good. '"
And Solomon said, "I have told you about these girls and boys. Tell me now, you people who have lost their belts: who is better - a boy or a girl, or a robber? "One said in response:" The girl is good because it talked about her betrothal. " Another said: "The boy is good, because wait until the resolution." The third said: "Rogue the best, because of the girl and returned released. A good not have to give. " Then Solomon said in response: "Friend, you are hungry for the property of others. You took all the belts. " He said: "Mr King-indeed it is. Utayus not from you. "
About the meaning of woman
And then the wise Solomon, wanting to experience the meaning of woman, called a nobleman, named Dekir, and said to him: "I really like you. And love you even more if you fulfill my desire: to kill his wife, and I'll give you a daughter of his best. " Said the same thing to him in a few days. He did not want to do it Dekir. And finally said, "I will do thy will, O king." Then the king gave him his sword, saying, "cut off the head of his wife, when she goes to sleep, not to dissuade her speeches, she will." And he went and found his wife asleep, and on either side of her two children. And he looked at his wife and their children sleeping, said in his heart: "If it hit my girlfriend sword, grieve my children." Then the king called him and asked him, saying, "Did the you my will concerning your wife?" He said, "I could not, my lord, do."
Then the king sent him as ambassador to another city, and he called his wife, told her, "I like you a lot more for all women. If you do that I shall command you, put you queen. Slay her husband sleeping on the bed, and this is for you - the sword. " In response, his wife said: "I am glad, O king, that you so will you have." Solomon, realizing his wisdom of her husband - that he does not want to kill his wife - gave him a sharp sword, and knowing his wife - that she wants to kill her husband gave her a blunt sword, pretending that he was sharp, saying "This sword slay her husband, sleeping in your bed." She put the sword to the chest of her husband, and began to drive them to his throat, thinking that he is sharp. And he jumped up, thinking that attacked some enemies, and when he saw that his wife was holding a sword, "Why, - said - a friend of mine, you think up to kill me?" In response to her husband's wife said: "The language of human convinced me to kill you. " He also wanted to call people and then realized that Solomon taught her.
Solomon, hearing of this, wrote this poem in the collection, saying, "Man found one among thousands, and women all over the world have not found."
The servant and the son
In the days of Solomon was the richest man in Babylon, but he had no children. Having lived half of his days, he adopted the boy-servant. And, shells, sent it to the good of Babylon on business. The same came to Jerusalem, there bummed. I got in a number of boyars Solomon, seated at a dinner at the king.
Meanwhile, in his master's house had a son. And when the young man turned thirteen years old, his father died. And his mother said to him, "Son, I've heard of bondsmen father that he got hold of Jerusalem. Go and find him. " He came to Jerusalem and asked about a person by the name of which was this servant. And he was very famous. He was told that he's Solomon at dinner. And the young man went to the king's room, and asked: "Who is such a lord?" He said in response: "It's me." Approached, the young man struck him in the face and said, "You - my slave! No nobility, sitting, and go to work! And give me back my property! "And the king was angry, and he was annoyed. Referring to Solomon, the young man said: "If there is, the king, the slave of my father's mine, then for the fact that I hit him with her hand, I got hit with a sword, which is going to kill me." Stress in turn, said, "I - master's son, and this - the servant of my father and me. I have witnesses in Babylon. " King said, "I can not believe the witnesses rather go after my Babylon - let him take it humerus out of the coffin of his father, and she will tell me, which of you son, and who is the servant. You be here. " And he sent his trusted ambassador, and he brought the humerus. The wisdom of their king commanded to wash clean the bone, put a nobleman and all the wise men, nobles and scribes before him and told the man that knows how to let blood, "Let the blood of this boyar." That did it. Then the king commanded to put the bone in the warm blood. The meaning of the commandment, he explained to his boyars, saying, "If that's his son, his blood cling to the bones of his father. If he does not cling, then - a slave. " And pulled the bone out of the blood and bone was as white as before. Then the king commanded to another vessel bled child. And, after washing the bone, put it into the blood of youth. Bone and engorged with blood. And the king said to his boyars, "See with your own eyes that tells the bone:" This one - my son, who - a slave. '" So judge between them a king.
About KING ADARIANE
Solomon then began to speak his boyars, "There was Adarian-king, and he ordered his boyars call him God. And, do not want, the boyars of his said, "our King! Do you think in your heart that there was no God before you? We will call you the supreme king of kings, if you take the Jerusalem above, and the Holy of Holies. "But he gathered his warriors by many, came and took Jerusalem, and came back and said to them: "Just as God is commanded, saying, I will do - and I did. Now, call me God. " It was the same with him three philosopher. He replied to him first, saying, "If you want to be called by God, mind you: it can not be called lord the king, being in the royal palace - has not yet come out. And you, if you want to be called by God, come out of the universe and there are called by God. "
Another said: "Can not you call God." The king asked, "Why?" He replied, "Says the prophet Jeremiah:" The gods did not create the heavens and the earth perish. " If you want to die, the king, is called God. "
A third said, "My lord the king! Give me more! "King said," What's the matter? "And said the philosopher," my boat three miles away ready to sink, and all my goods in it. " And the king said, "Do not worry. Send people, and they will lead it. " A philosopher once said, "Why do you, O king, to trouble his people? Went quiet wind, that he will save her. " The same, realizing silent displeasure and went into the rest of his queen.
And the queen said: "The philosophers have deceived thee, O king, telling you that you can not be called God." Wishing well to console him in the sorrow, she said, "You - a king, you are rich, you are worthy of great honor. Do - said - one thing, and then zovis God. " The king asked: "What's that?" And the queen said: "The property of God, which you have, return." He asked: "What is property?" The queen said, "Restore your soul, that God had put in your body, and then zovis God." He said: "If there is no soul in me, in my body, as I call God?" The queen said to him: "If you do not own your soul, then God can not be nicknamed '."
On stolen Tsarevna
King Solomon asked the princess for himself. And do not give her to him. Then Solomon said to demons: "Go, and take the princess that, and bring it to me." And the demons, going, abducted her to move as she walked from the chambers of the mother put her in the boat and raced across the sea.
And saw the princess that people drink water, and behind it the water comes out. She asked: "Tell me what it is." And the demons said, "He will explain to whom you are taking." Go ahead and see - people wandering around in the water, water requests, and waves his knock. And she said to the princess: "disgrace my matchmakers, and it explained to me: why is the man in the water, wandering, water requests?" And they said, "He will explain to whom you are taking." And passed, and see - a man reaps hay goes, and two goats, followed by walking, eat the grass: that he would cut, then they eat. And she said to the princess: "Explain to me disgrace my matchmakers, explain to me why those goats eating grass nesrezannuyu?" And the demons she was told, "He will explain to whom you are taking."
And rushed her to the city. One went and told the demon-king Solomon: "They brought the bride to you." Then the king, sitting on his horse, went ashore. And the princess told him: "Today I am your king. But here's what I explain: people drank water, and behind him she went out. " King said, "Why are you surprised about this? It's the king's house: here is, it goes. " And the princess said, "And here's another tell me what it is: one man wandering in the water, the water is asking a wave knocked him?" Solomon said, "O bride! Why are you surprised that the bride? It's servant tsar: he judges a lawsuit, and another lawsuit seeking to Tsarevo heart to do good. " - "And now that I have yet to explain: the man cuts the grass, and that would cut, the two goats, followed by walking, eat. Why those devils, vlezshim in hay is not grass nesrezannuyu? "And the king said," The Bride! Why are you surprised? If a man takes another wife with other people's children, what it to turn out, they will eat. And for myself it is nothing. Now go, the bride, to my rest. "
So she became his wife.
And the king said to them: "So you say," This is my son that liveth, and her dead, "- and she said," No, my son is alive and your dead. '" And the king said to the servants, "cutting of the living boy in two, and give half of it, and half of that. And dead, too, cut, give him half of this and half of that. "
And said the woman, whose son was alive, for in the confusion came from her soul of her son, and said, "May I be in trouble, my lord. Give her the boy did not kill him. " And the other woman said, "Let it be neither mine nor her! Cut it in half. " The king answered and said: "Give the living baby woman, and said:" Give it to her, not kill him. " Give it to her, because she - his mother. "
Israel heard about the court which tried the king, and they were filled with all those Tsar, for they knew that he was given a sense of God, to do judgment and justice.
FOR HELP THE PHARAOH
Solomon married the daughter of Pharaoh, when he was building the Holy of Holies. And he sent his ambassador to him, saying: "My father in law! Came to help me. " And the six hundred men chose to learn through astrology, that they will die in the year - I wanted to test the wisdom of Solomon. When they were brought to Solomon, he saw them from a distance and ordered all of them to make a shroud. He put his to him and sent his ambassador to Pharaoh, saying: "My father in law! If you have nothing to bury their dead, so here's a dress. Do yourself a bury them. "
LEGEND HOW WAS TAKEN Kitovras Solomon
When Solomon built the Holy of Holies, it took him a question Kitovras. One told him where he lives, he said - in a desert far. Then the wise Solomon planned to forge the iron chain and an iron hoop, and on it wrote spell the name of God, and sent the first of his boyars and the servants, and ordered to carry wine and honey, and took with sheepskins. Kitovras came to housing, to the three wells it, but it was not there. And as directed by Solomon poured into those pits wine and honey, and the top covered in sheepskin wells. In two wells poured wine, and a third med. Themselves, hiding, watching from a hiding place when it comes to drinking water wells. And soon he came, clung to the water and began to drink and said, "Everyone who drinks wine is not wise." But he got sick drinking the water, and he said, "You - the wine, laughing people heart" - and drank all three wells. And wanted to sleep a little bit, and sort out his wine, and he slept soundly. Boyar is going up, tightly bound him on the neck, hands and legs. And he woke up, he wanted to rush. And the lord said to him, "Mr. Solomon to spell the name of God written on the chains, which are now on you." He also saw them myself, meekly went to Jerusalem to the king.
Temper as it was like that. He did not go through the curves, but - only direct. And when they came to Jerusalem, to clear the path in front of him and pulled down the house, because he did not go around. And came to the house of a widow. And ran, the widow cried, begging Kitovras: "Sir, I am a widow poor. Do not hurt me! "He twisted around the corner, not sostupyas of the way, and broke his ribs. And he said: "A soft tongue breaks the bone." When led him through the auction, then, hearing the man said: "Is there no shoes for seven years?" - Kitovras laughed. And when he saw another man, vorozhaschego, laughed. And having seen a wedding consult, wept. But when he saw the way people wandering off the road, he sent it to the road. And they brought him to the Tsar's court.
The first day did not lead them to Solomon. And Kitovras said: "Why not call me to his king?" They said to him: "The census it yesterday." Kitovras he took a stone and put on another stone. Solomon told how he entered Kitovras. And the king said, "tells me to drink drink drink." And the next day did not call him to his king. And Kitovras asked, "Why not taking me to the king, and why I do not see his face?" And they said, "dog-sick king, because that ate a lot yesterday." Then took Kitovras stone from stone.
On the third day, said: "He is calling you to the king." He also measured the rod in four cubits, went to the king, and bowed in silence before the king threw a rod. Then the king in his wisdom explained his boyars, which means the rod, and told: "God has given you to possess the universe, and you're not satisfied, and I was caught." And Solomon said unto him, "Do not lead her on a whim I love you, but to ask how to build a Holy of Holies. Brought you to the Lord's command, because not allowing me to cut stone with iron. "
And Kitovras said: "There is a small bird named nail Shamir. Stores it in the nest of a field cock his rock on the mountain in the wilderness of the future. " Solomon sent a nobleman with his servants, at the direction of Kitovras, to nest. A boyar Kitovras gave clear glass and told him to hide the nest: "When will fly Kokot, cover glass that slot." Lord went to the nest, and in it - chicks small cocotte also flew over the stern. And he laid the glass mouth of the socket. Wait a bit, and Kokot arrived, he wanted to get into the nest. Chicks peep through the window, and he said to him not to go. Kept Shamir at a certain place, and brought to the nest, and put them on the glass, but it sit. Then the people shouted, and he was released. And he took, lord brought to Solomon.
Solomon then asked Kitovras: "Why do you laugh when people ask shoes for seven years?" - "I saw on him - said Kitovras - that will not live seven days." The king sent to check and found that. And Solomon said, "Why do you laugh when people used enchantments?" Kitovras answered: "He told people about the secret, and he did not know that under it - a cache of gold." And Solomon said, "Go and see." Tested, and proved to be so. And when the king asked, "Why are crying, seeing the wedding?" Kitovras said: "saddened because he will not live fiance and thirty days." Checked the king, and was so. And when the king asked, "Why a drunken man brought to the road?" Kitovras replied: "I heard from heaven that the man is virtuous and should serve him."
Kitovras Solomon had stayed until the end of the Holy of Holies.
Kitovras Solomon once said, "Now I see that your strength - as well as human, and no more of our power, but the same." Kitovras said to him: "King, if you want to see what my strength, take off my chain and give me his ring with his hands, then you will see my power." Solomon removed his iron chain, and gave him the ring. And he swallowed the ring, stretched out his arm, swung and hit Solomon, and threw it on the edge of the Promised Land. Found out about it, sages and scribes and spotted Solomon.
Always covered Solomon Kitovras fear of the night. The king built the bed and ordered sixty strong young men standing around with swords. Wherefore it is said in the Scriptures: "The bed of Solomon, sixty brave young men from Israel and from the north country."
About two-headed husband and his children
Kitovras same, going to the people, gave Solomon a man with two heads. Caught the man in Solomon. Solomon asked him: "Are you from the kind of people? You're a man or a demon? "The man replied," I - of people living under the ground. " And the king said to him: "Do you have the sun and the moon?" He said, "From your sun rises in the west of us, and comes to your east. So when you have a day, then we have the night. And when you have a night, then we have day. " And the king gave him a wife. And there were born two sons: one with two heads, and the other with one. And their father had a lot of good. And their father died. Headed said to his brother: "We divide the property on the head." A younger brother said, "are two of us. Divide the property in half. " They went to court to the king. Disbud said to the king: "We are two brothers. We need to divide the property in half. " And that, the two-headed, said the king, "I have two heads, and I want to take two beats." Then the king commanded in his wisdom apply vinegar and said, "Are these two heads of different bodies; polyu me just vinegar per head: if you do not feel the other head, two parts take two heads. And if you feel the other head pouring vinegar, then, both the head of one of the body. Then take a share. " When poured vinegar on one head, another squealed. And the king said, "If you have one body, take one share." So judge between them, King Solomon.
MYSTERIES MALKATOSHKI
Yuzha was named queen inoplemennitsa Malkatoshka. She came to prove Solomon with hard questions. She was very wise. And they offered him gifts of gold twenty kapy, a lot of potions and wood negniyuschego. Solomon, having heard about the arrival of the Queen, sat in the hall with a floor made of clear glass on the platform, wanting to try it. She saw that the king is sitting in the water, picked up his clothes in front of him. And he saw that she had a beautiful face, her body is hairy, like a brush. These hair she bewitches men who used to come to her. Solomon said his wise men: "Prepare the room and ointment zeliem and strike her body to hair fell out." And the wise men, and scribes told him that he met with her. Conceived by him, she went to the land and gave birth to a son, and it was Nebuchadnezzar.
That's what it was a mystery to Solomon. She gathered the boys and girls dressed in the same clothes, and said to the king: "You will be examined by his wisdom, that boys and girls are." The king in his wisdom ordered to bear fruit, and emptied them in front of them. Boys started picking up in the floors of clothes, and the girls in the sleeves. And Solomon said, "This is the boys, and this - the girls." She marveled because of his cunning.
The next day she gathered the young men are circumcised and uncircumcised, and Solomon said: "We will understand that circumcised and uncircumcised men are." Then the king commanded the bishop to make the holy crown, on which was written the word of God, which Balaam was turned away from sorcery. Circumcised youths rose and fell before the uncircumcised crown. It is this very surprised.
Make come true sages her crafty Solomon: "We have a well away from the city. His wisdom guess what, you can drag it to the city? "Crafty as Solomon, realizing that this can not be said to them:" Weave bran rope, and we dragged a pit in your city. "
Once again, it will make come true the wise: "If cornfield porastet knives than able to shake it?" They said, 'Donkey's horn. " And the wise men said to her, "Where are the horns of a donkey?" They said, 'Where's cornfield bear knives? "
Make come true, and more: "If rots salt than you can salt it?" They said, "Maw mule took, it should be salt." And they said, "But where a mule giving birth?" They said, 'Where's the salt decay? "
The queen, seeing the mansion started, and a lot of food, and how are people to, and how are his servants, and their apparel, and drink, and the sacrifices they brought to the house of God, said, "Truly speech I heard in mine own land of thy wisdom. And I did not have faith speeches until I came and saw with my own eyes. It turns out that was not said to me and a half. Benefit to the men of thy hear thy wisdom. "
King Solomon gave the queen of Malkatoshka name and all she asked. And she went to her own land and his people.
The inheritance of three brothers
In the days of Solomon was a man who had three sons. Dying, the man called them to him and said to them: "I have a treasure in the earth. In the place, - he said, - three vessels are on each other. After the death of my eldest shall take the upper, middle - middle, and the smaller one - the bottom. " After his father's death his sons opened the treasure in the presence of people. And it was in the top container full of gold, full of bones in the middle, and the bottom is full of earth. These brothers began to quarrel, saying, "You - a son, just take the gold, and we - no sons?" And they went to court to Solomon. And they reasoned Solomon that there is gold - the older, cattle and servants - the average - according to the bones, and that the vineyards, cornfields and grain - the smallest. And he said to them, "Your father was an intelligent man and you are satisfied with life."
On three wayfarers
Three people were walking their way, carrying their belts gold. Pausing for a Saturday stay in the wilderness, they conferred and decided: "Hide the gold in the cave, if robbers attack, we'll run away, and it will be saved." Dig a hole, they put their belts in the cache. In the night, when the two friends were asleep, the third, feeding evil thought, stood up and perepryatat belt elsewhere. And when, after a rest, come to a hiding place to take your belt, do not find them, they cried out all at once, the villain as he yelled louder two others. And all returned home. And they said, "Come to Solomon and tell him about our problem." And they came to Solomon, saying, "I do not know, O king, it took an animal, bird, or whether an angel. Tell us, O king. " He's in his wisdom said to them: "I'll find you tomorrow. But once you have the travelers, I beg you, explain to me:
A young man engaged to a beautiful girl, gave her an engagement ring, without the knowledge of her father and mother. This young man went to another land, and there married. His father gave the girl is married. And when he wanted to copulate with her fiance, she cried and said: "Shame I did not tell his father that he was engaged to another. Fear God, come to my Fiance, ask his permission: I'll let you in the words of his wife. " Was about a young man, and took a lot of good and the girl went there. And that allowed him: "Let it be your wife, once you get it." The bridegroom and said to her, "go back and re-arrange the wedding." And when they went home back, they met a rapist and his men, and took him and the girl, and with the good. And wanted the robber to create violence on the girl, and she cried and told the robber that she went for a permit and was still with her husband in bed. Surprised robber and told her husband, "Take your wife and go with her good. '"
And Solomon said, "I have told you about these girls and boys. Tell me now, you people who have lost their belts: who is better - a boy or a girl, or a robber? "One said in response:" The girl is good because it talked about her betrothal. " Another said: "The boy is good, because wait until the resolution." The third said: "Rogue the best, because of the girl and returned released. A good not have to give. " Then Solomon said in response: "Friend, you are hungry for the property of others. You took all the belts. " He said: "Mr King-indeed it is. Utayus not from you. "
About the meaning of woman
And then the wise Solomon, wanting to experience the meaning of woman, called a nobleman, named Dekir, and said to him: "I really like you. And love you even more if you fulfill my desire: to kill his wife, and I'll give you a daughter of his best. " Said the same thing to him in a few days. He did not want to do it Dekir. And finally said, "I will do thy will, O king." Then the king gave him his sword, saying, "cut off the head of his wife, when she goes to sleep, not to dissuade her speeches, she will." And he went and found his wife asleep, and on either side of her two children. And he looked at his wife and their children sleeping, said in his heart: "If it hit my girlfriend sword, grieve my children." Then the king called him and asked him, saying, "Did the you my will concerning your wife?" He said, "I could not, my lord, do."
Then the king sent him as ambassador to another city, and he called his wife, told her, "I like you a lot more for all women. If you do that I shall command you, put you queen. Slay her husband sleeping on the bed, and this is for you - the sword. " In response, his wife said: "I am glad, O king, that you so will you have." Solomon, realizing his wisdom of her husband - that he does not want to kill his wife - gave him a sharp sword, and knowing his wife - that she wants to kill her husband gave her a blunt sword, pretending that he was sharp, saying "This sword slay her husband, sleeping in your bed." She put the sword to the chest of her husband, and began to drive them to his throat, thinking that he is sharp. And he jumped up, thinking that attacked some enemies, and when he saw that his wife was holding a sword, "Why, - said - a friend of mine, you think up to kill me?" In response to her husband's wife said: "The language of human convinced me to kill you. " He also wanted to call people and then realized that Solomon taught her.
Solomon, hearing of this, wrote this poem in the collection, saying, "Man found one among thousands, and women all over the world have not found."
The servant and the son
In the days of Solomon was the richest man in Babylon, but he had no children. Having lived half of his days, he adopted the boy-servant. And, shells, sent it to the good of Babylon on business. The same came to Jerusalem, there bummed. I got in a number of boyars Solomon, seated at a dinner at the king.
Meanwhile, in his master's house had a son. And when the young man turned thirteen years old, his father died. And his mother said to him, "Son, I've heard of bondsmen father that he got hold of Jerusalem. Go and find him. " He came to Jerusalem and asked about a person by the name of which was this servant. And he was very famous. He was told that he's Solomon at dinner. And the young man went to the king's room, and asked: "Who is such a lord?" He said in response: "It's me." Approached, the young man struck him in the face and said, "You - my slave! No nobility, sitting, and go to work! And give me back my property! "And the king was angry, and he was annoyed. Referring to Solomon, the young man said: "If there is, the king, the slave of my father's mine, then for the fact that I hit him with her hand, I got hit with a sword, which is going to kill me." Stress in turn, said, "I - master's son, and this - the servant of my father and me. I have witnesses in Babylon. " King said, "I can not believe the witnesses rather go after my Babylon - let him take it humerus out of the coffin of his father, and she will tell me, which of you son, and who is the servant. You be here. " And he sent his trusted ambassador, and he brought the humerus. The wisdom of their king commanded to wash clean the bone, put a nobleman and all the wise men, nobles and scribes before him and told the man that knows how to let blood, "Let the blood of this boyar." That did it. Then the king commanded to put the bone in the warm blood. The meaning of the commandment, he explained to his boyars, saying, "If that's his son, his blood cling to the bones of his father. If he does not cling, then - a slave. " And pulled the bone out of the blood and bone was as white as before. Then the king commanded to another vessel bled child. And, after washing the bone, put it into the blood of youth. Bone and engorged with blood. And the king said to his boyars, "See with your own eyes that tells the bone:" This one - my son, who - a slave. '" So judge between them a king.
About KING ADARIANE
Solomon then began to speak his boyars, "There was Adarian-king, and he ordered his boyars call him God. And, do not want, the boyars of his said, "our King! Do you think in your heart that there was no God before you? We will call you the supreme king of kings, if you take the Jerusalem above, and the Holy of Holies. "But he gathered his warriors by many, came and took Jerusalem, and came back and said to them: "Just as God is commanded, saying, I will do - and I did. Now, call me God. " It was the same with him three philosopher. He replied to him first, saying, "If you want to be called by God, mind you: it can not be called lord the king, being in the royal palace - has not yet come out. And you, if you want to be called by God, come out of the universe and there are called by God. "
Another said: "Can not you call God." The king asked, "Why?" He replied, "Says the prophet Jeremiah:" The gods did not create the heavens and the earth perish. " If you want to die, the king, is called God. "
A third said, "My lord the king! Give me more! "King said," What's the matter? "And said the philosopher," my boat three miles away ready to sink, and all my goods in it. " And the king said, "Do not worry. Send people, and they will lead it. " A philosopher once said, "Why do you, O king, to trouble his people? Went quiet wind, that he will save her. " The same, realizing silent displeasure and went into the rest of his queen.
And the queen said: "The philosophers have deceived thee, O king, telling you that you can not be called God." Wishing well to console him in the sorrow, she said, "You - a king, you are rich, you are worthy of great honor. Do - said - one thing, and then zovis God. " The king asked: "What's that?" And the queen said: "The property of God, which you have, return." He asked: "What is property?" The queen said, "Restore your soul, that God had put in your body, and then zovis God." He said: "If there is no soul in me, in my body, as I call God?" The queen said to him: "If you do not own your soul, then God can not be nicknamed '."
On stolen Tsarevna
King Solomon asked the princess for himself. And do not give her to him. Then Solomon said to demons: "Go, and take the princess that, and bring it to me." And the demons, going, abducted her to move as she walked from the chambers of the mother put her in the boat and raced across the sea.
And saw the princess that people drink water, and behind it the water comes out. She asked: "Tell me what it is." And the demons said, "He will explain to whom you are taking." Go ahead and see - people wandering around in the water, water requests, and waves his knock. And she said to the princess: "disgrace my matchmakers, and it explained to me: why is the man in the water, wandering, water requests?" And they said, "He will explain to whom you are taking." And passed, and see - a man reaps hay goes, and two goats, followed by walking, eat the grass: that he would cut, then they eat. And she said to the princess: "Explain to me disgrace my matchmakers, explain to me why those goats eating grass nesrezannuyu?" And the demons she was told, "He will explain to whom you are taking."
And rushed her to the city. One went and told the demon-king Solomon: "They brought the bride to you." Then the king, sitting on his horse, went ashore. And the princess told him: "Today I am your king. But here's what I explain: people drank water, and behind him she went out. " King said, "Why are you surprised about this? It's the king's house: here is, it goes. " And the princess said, "And here's another tell me what it is: one man wandering in the water, the water is asking a wave knocked him?" Solomon said, "O bride! Why are you surprised that the bride? It's servant tsar: he judges a lawsuit, and another lawsuit seeking to Tsarevo heart to do good. " - "And now that I have yet to explain: the man cuts the grass, and that would cut, the two goats, followed by walking, eat. Why those devils, vlezshim in hay is not grass nesrezannuyu? "And the king said," The Bride! Why are you surprised? If a man takes another wife with other people's children, what it to turn out, they will eat. And for myself it is nothing. Now go, the bride, to my rest. "
So she became his wife.
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