1 Kings 3:19-25

¹⁹But one night this woman's baby died because she accidentally rolled on top of her baby while sleeping and smothered it.

²⁰So she got up at midnight and took my baby boy who was lying beside me while I was sleeping. She carried him to her bed and brought her dead baby and put it in my bed.

²¹When I awoke the next morning and was ready to nurse my baby, I saw that it was dead. But when I looked at it closely in the morning light, I saw that it was not my baby!”

²²But the other woman said, “That is not true! The baby that is alive is mine, and the baby that is dead is yours!” Then the first woman said, “No, the dead baby is yours, and the one that is alive is mine!” And they continued to argue in front of the king.

²³Then the king said, “Both of you are saying, ‘My baby is the one that is alive and the one that is dead is yours.’ ”

²⁴So he said to one of his servants, “Bring me a sword.” So the servant brought a sword to the king.

²⁵Then the king said to the servant, “Cut the baby that is alive into two parts. Give one part to each of the women.”