1 Kings 3:25 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁵ 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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ And the king said, Divide the living child in two and give half to the one and half to the other.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Then the king said, “Cut the living child in two! Give half to one woman and half to the other woman.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ he said, "Divide the living infant in two parts, and give a half part to the one and a half part to the other."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ Divide, said he, the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

1 Kings 3:25 Cross References

1 Kings 3:24

And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

1 Kings 3:26

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.

Proverbs 25:8

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.