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## 1 Kings 3:24-25 in Context (Verses 21–28 KJV)
 
 [21 ](/kjv/1-kings/3/21) And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/1-kings/3/22) And the other woman said, Nay; but the living *is* my son, and the dead *is* thy son. And this said, No; but the dead *is* thy son, and the living *is* my son. Thus they spake before the king.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/1-kings/3/23) Then said the king, The one saith, This *is* my son that liveth, and thy son *is* the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son *is* the dead, and my son *is* the living.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/1-kings/3/24) And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
 
 [25 ](/kjv/1-kings/3/25) And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/1-kings/3/26) Then spake the woman whose the living child *was* unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, *but* divide *it*.*
 
 [27 ](/kjv/1-kings/3/27) Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she *is* the mother thereof.
 
 [28 ](/kjv/1-kings/3/28) And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God *was* in him, to do judgment.*
 
[1 Kings 2](/kjv/1-kings/2) [1 Kings 4](/kjv/1-kings/4)

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