1 Kings 3:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.” So a sword was brought before the king.

1 Kings 3:26

Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means slay it.” But the other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.”

Proverbs 25:8

do not hastily bring into court; for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?