1 Kings 3:25

And 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.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

24And the king said, Fetch a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

26And the woman whose the living child was, answered and said to the king, (for her + 3:26 Gr. her womb was troubled. bowels yearned over her son) and she said, I pray you, my lord, give her the child, and in nowise kill it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide it.

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Cross References

Proverbs 25:8Get not suddenly into a quarrel, lest you repent at last.

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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