1 Kings 3:24

And the king said, Fetch me a sword: and they brought the sword before the king.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

In Context

23Then said the king, This one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is dead: and the other saith, It is not so; thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.

25And the king said, Hew the living child in two, and give the one half to one, and the other half to the other.

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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 →

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