1 Kings 3:19-25

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

²⁰She 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.

²¹When 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.”

²²The 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.

²³Then 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.’”

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

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