“Then the king answered, “Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Kings 3 contains 28 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.