1 KINGS 3:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.”
"But the other said, 'It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it!' Then the king knew which was the true mother." — The second woman's response: *lah u-li 'al-yihyeh, gavla* (it shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it!). She agrees to the *destructive solution*, suggesting that her concern is not the child's welfare but *denying it* to her rival. The phrase *az yada' ha-melekh* (then the king knew) indicates that Solomon's *test has worked*. The true mother revealed herself through her willingness to *sacrifice her own claim* to preserve the child's life. The false mother revealed herself through her *indifference* to the child's fate.
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