1 Kings 3:26
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
25And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Cross References
Psalms 39:3My heart was hot within me. While I was musing the fire burned. [Then] I spoke with my tongue:
Jeremiah 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy upon him, says LORD.
Romans 1:31without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.
Philippians 2:1If therefore any exhortation is in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
1 John 3:17But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 3:17-28
The Wisdom of Solomon. ( b. c. 1014.) 16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 And it came to pass the third day after that 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. 19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 20… Read the whole commentary →