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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Gill's Exposition
Then spake the woman, whose the living child was, unto the king,.... In haste, and with great vehemency, lest the executioner should at once dispatch it:
(for her bowels yearned upon her son); not…
Adam Clarke
Divide the living child in two - This was apparently a very strange decision, and such as nothing could vindicate had it been carried into execution; but Solomon saw that the only way to find out the…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Divide the living child According to Josephus, the order of the king was that both the living and the dead child should be divided and half of either be given to each mother. But this was not in…