1 Kings 3:24

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

23And the king said to them, Thou sayest, This is my son, even the living one, and this woman’s son is the dead one: and thou sayest, No, but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son.

25And the king said, Divide the live child, the suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and half of it 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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