1 Kings 3:25 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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, Fetch 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, Oh my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it.

Proverbs 25:8

Go not forth hastily to strive, Lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.