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1 Kings 3
²⁴ The king said, "Get me a sword." So they brought a sword before the king.
²⁵ The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other."
²⁶ Then the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for she was deeply stirred over her son and said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him." But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!"
²⁷ Then the king said, "Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother."
²⁸ When all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
1 Kings 4
¹ Now King Solomon was king over all Israel.
² These were his officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;
³ Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;
⁴ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
⁵ and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the deputies; and Zabud the son of Nathan, a priest, was the king’s friend;
⁶ and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.