1 Kings 3:19-25

¹⁹And this woman's son died in the night; because she had overlaid him.

²⁰And she arose in the midst of the night, and took my son from beside me, while thy hand-maid slept, and laid him in her bosom, and her dead son she laid in my bosom.

²¹And when I rose in the morning to give my son suck, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I had born.

²²And the other woman said, It is not so; my son is the living one, and thy son is the dead; and this one said, It is not so; thy son is the dead, and my son is the living: thus they spoke before the king.

²³Then said the king, This one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is dead: and the other saith, It is not so; thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.

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

²⁵And the king said, Hew the living child in two, and give the one half to one, and the other half to the other.