In Context

21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.|

22 The other woman said, |No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son.| This said, |No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son.| Thus they spoke before the king.

23 Then the king said, |The 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.'|

24 The king said, |Get me a sword.| They brought a sword before the king.

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

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 it!| But the other said, |It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it.|

1 Kings 3:24 in Other Translations