1 Kings 3:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The king then said,“Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!”

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  • Prov 25:8 : 8 Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?

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  • 1 Kgs 3:26-28
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    26The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said,“My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don’t kill him!” But the other woman said,“Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!”

    27The king responded,“Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”

    28When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected the king, for they realized that he possessed divine wisdom to make judicial decisions.

  • 1 Kgs 3:19-24
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    19This woman’s child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.

    20She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.

    21I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”

    22The other woman said,“No! My son is alive; your son is dead!” But the first woman replied,“No, your son is dead; my son is alive.” Each presented her case before the king.

    23The king said,“One says,‘My son is alive; your son is dead,’ while the other says,‘No, your son is dead; my son is alive.’”

    24The king ordered,“Get me a sword!” So they placed a sword before the king.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-30
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    28Then the king asked her,“What’s your problem?” She answered,“This woman said to me,‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’

    29So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day,‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”

    30When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.

  • Exod 1:16-18
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    16“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”

    17But the midwives feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

    18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,“Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

  • 2 Sam 14:6-8
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    6Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

    7Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”

    8Then the king told the woman,“Go to your home. I will give instructions concerning your situation.”

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
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    17One of the women said,“My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.

  • 2 Sam 14:10-12
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    10The king said,“Bring to me whoever speaks to you, and he won’t bother you again!”

    11She replied,“In that case, let the king invoke the name of the LORD your God so that the avenger of blood may not add to the killing! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied,“As surely as the LORD lives, not a single hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

    12Then the woman said,“Please permit your servant to speak to my lord the king about another matter.” He replied,“Tell me.”

  • 2 Sam 14:16
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    16Yes! The king may listen and deliver his female servant from the hand of the man who seeks to remove both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’

  • Mark 6:27-28
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    27So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

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    23He swore to her,“Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

  • Matt 14:8-9
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    8Instructed by her mother, she said,“Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”

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  • 2 Sam 14:18-19
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    18Then the king replied to the woman,“Don’t hide any information from me when I question you.” The woman said,“Let my lord the king speak!”

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    39When the king passed by, he called out to the king,“Your servant went out into the heat of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. He told me,‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, you will pay with your life or with a talent of silver.’

  • 2 Chr 25:3
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    3When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father the king.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

  • 2 Kgs 8:6
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    6The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him,“Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

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    22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,“All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

  • 1 Kgs 17:19
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    19He said to her,“Hand me your son.” He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.

  • 1 Sam 22:16
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    16But the king said,“You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”

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    16Here is why this will be so: Before the child knows how to reject evil and choose what is right, the land whose two kings you fear will be desolate.

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    6While at the banquet of wine, the king said to Esther,“What is your request? It shall be given to you. What is your petition? Ask for as much as half the kingdom, and it shall be done!”

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    31The king told him,“Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.

  • 2 Kgs 4:19
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    19He said to his father,“My head! My head!” His father told a servant,“Carry him to his mother.”

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