1 Kings 3:25

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

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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

24The king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.

26Then 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 in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

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Cross References

Proverbs 25:8Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbour shames you?

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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