16 Then two women, harlots, come to the king, and they stand before him, 17 and the first woman says, "O my lord, this woman and I are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth with her, in the house; 18 and it comes to pass on the third day of my bringing forth, that this woman also brings forth, and we [are] together, there is no stranger with us in the house, except the two of us, in the house. 19 And the son of this woman dies at night, because she has lain on him, 20 and she rises in the middle of the night, and takes my son from beside me—and your handmaid is asleep—and lays him in her bosom, and she has laid her dead son in my bosom; 21 and I rise in the morning to suckle my son, and behold, [he is] dead; and I consider in the morning concerning it, and behold, it was not my son whom I bore." 22 And the other woman says, "No, but my son [is] the living, and your son the dead"; and this [one] says, "No, but your son [is] the dead, and my son the living." And they speak before the king. 23 And the king says, "This [one] says, This [is] my son, the living, and your son [is] the dead; and that [one] says, No, but your son [is] the dead, and my son the living." 24 And the king says, "Take a sword for me"; and they bring the sword before the king, 25 and the king says, "Cut the living child into two, and give half to one, and half to the other." 26 And the woman whose son [is] the living one says to the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), indeed, she says, "O my lord, give the living child to her, and do not put him to death at all"; and this [one] says, "Let him be neither mine or yours—cut [him]." 27 And the king answers and says, "Give the living child to her [who wants him], and do not put him to death at all; she [is] his mother." 28 And all [in] Israel hear of the judgment that the king has judged, and fear because of the king, for they have seen that the wisdom of God [is] in his heart to do judgment.
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