Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.
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19In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.
20And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.
21And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.
22And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king.
23Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living.
24Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king.
25And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.
27Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.
28And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.
28And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.
29So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.
30Then the king, hearing what the woman said, took his robes in his hands, violently parting them; and, while he was walking on the wall, the people, looking, saw that under his robe he had haircloth on his flesh.
10And the king said, If anyone says anything to you, make him come to me, and he will do you no more damage.
11Then she said, Let the king keep in mind the Lord your God, so that he who gives punishment for blood may be kept back from further destruction and that no one may send death on my son. And he said, By the living Lord, not a hair of your son's head will come to the earth.
12Then the woman said, Will the king let his servant say one word more? And he said, Say on.
13And the woman said, Why have you had such a thought about the people of God? (for in saying these very words the king has put himself in the wrong because he has not taken back the one whom he sent far away.)
5And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
6And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.
7And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.
8And the king said to the woman, Go to your house and I will give orders about this.
16When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.
17But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.
18And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living?
17And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.
15And now it is my fear of the people which has made me come to say these words to my lord the king: and your servant said, I will put my cause before the king, and it may be that he will give effect to my request.
16For the king will give ear, and take his servant out of the power of the man whose purpose is the destruction of me and my son together from the heritage of God.
18Then the king said to the woman, Now give me an answer to the question I am going to put to you; keep nothing back. And the woman said, Let my lord the king say on.
19And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman in answer said, By the life of your soul, my lord the king, it is not possible for anyone to go to the right hand or to the left from anything said by the king: your servant Joab gave me orders, and put all these words in my mouth:
18And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?
19And he said to her, Give your son to me. And lifting him out of her arms, he took him up to his room and put him down on his bed.
20And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?
30But the mother of the child said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not go back without you. So he got up and went with her.
2What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?
6And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to one of his unsexed servants, saying, Give her back all her property, and all the produce of her fields from the day when she went away from the land up till now.
12Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.
8And she, at her mother's suggestion, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist.
9And the king was sad; but because of his oaths and because of his guests, he gave the order for it to be given to her;
56The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;
6And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
19And he said, They were my brothers, my mother's sons: by the life of the Lord, if you had kept them safe, I would not put you to death.
23And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.
10The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
12So now, let me make a suggestion, so that you may keep your life safe and the life of your son Solomon.
13And that you will keep safe my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and all they have, so that death may not come on us?
19And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.
21For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.
20And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.