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.(1 Kings 3:21)

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.(1 Kings 3:22)

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.(1 Kings 3:23)

And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.(1 Kings 3:25)

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.(1 Kings 3:26)

Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.(1 Kings 3:27)