King James Version (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.”
Verse in context — 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
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].
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Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she [is] the mother thereof.
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.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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