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.
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Gill's Exposition
And the other woman said,.... The defendant:
nay, but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son; she denied what the other said, but offered nothing in proof of it:
and this said; she who was…
An instance is here given of Solomon's wisdom, to show that the grant lately made him had a real effect upon him. The proof is fetched, not from the mysteries of state and the policies of the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
behold it was dead i.e. I had a dead child in my bosom which I supposed to be mine.
I had considered The form of the verb implies a careful examination, a looking over and over, and noticing such…