1 Kings 3:25 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

Then the king said, 'Cut the living child in half and give one half to each woman.'

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

The king is proposing what seems like a shocking solution to test which woman is truly the child's mother.

📚 Historical Context

This is part of the famous story of King Solomon's wisdom, where two women both claimed to be the mother of the same baby. Solomon proposed this seemingly harsh solution as a test to reveal the true mother, knowing that the real mother would rather give up her child than see it harmed.

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One of the women said, 'My lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a baby while she was there with me.'

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She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while I was sleeping, and put him next to herself, and put her dead child next to me.

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