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1 Kings 3:25
The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

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1 Kings 3:25
The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”

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1 Kings 3:23
Then the king said, “One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’ ”

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

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1 Kings 3:27
Then the king answered, “Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”

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1 Kings 3:21
When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.”

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1 Kings 3:28
All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

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1 Kings 3:16
Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.

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1 Kings 3:17
The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.

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1 Kings 3:18
The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

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1 Kings 3:19
This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.

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1 Kings 3:20
She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

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1 Kings 3:22
The other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first one said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” They argued like this before the king.


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