First Kings 3:19-25

¹⁹Then this woman's son died in the night, because she lay on him.

²⁰So she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.

²¹When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, he was dead. But when I had looked at him carefully in the morning, he was not my son, whom I had borne.”

²²Then the other woman said, “No, the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” The first woman said, “No, the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” This is how they spoke before the king.

²³Then the king said, “One of you says, 'This is my son who is alive, and your son is dead,' and the other says, 'No, your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.'”

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

²⁵Then the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to this woman and half to the other.”