lesserot - 1Kings:3:16-28

lesserot@1Kings:3:16 @ Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and placed themselves before him.

lesserot@1Kings:3:17 @ And the one woman said, Pardon, my Lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

lesserot@1Kings:3:18 @ And it came to pass on the third day after I was delivered, that also this woman was delivered: and we were together, there was no stranger with us in the house, only we two were in the house.

lesserot@1Kings:3:19 @ And this womans son died in the night; because she had overlaid him.

lesserot@1Kings:3:20 @ And she arose in the midst of the night, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid him in her bosom, and her dead son she laid in my bosom.

lesserot@1Kings:3:21 @ And 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.

lesserot@1Kings:3:22 @ And 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.

lesserot@1Kings:3:23 @ Then 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.

lesserot@1Kings:3:24 @ And the king said, Fetch me a sword: and they brought the sword before the king.

lesserot@1Kings:3:25 @ And the king said, Hew the living child in two, and give the one half to one, and the other half to the other.

lesserot@1Kings:3:26 @ Then spoke the woman whose son was the living unto the king, for her love had become enkindled for her son, and she said, O pardon, my Lord, give her the living child, and only do not slay it; but the other said, Neither mine nor thine shall it be, hew it asunder.

lesserot@1Kings:3:27 @ The king then answered and said, Give her the living child, and do not slay it: she is its mother.

lesserot@1Kings:3:28 @ And when all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had given, they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to exercise justice.