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her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21
And when I rose in the morning to give my
child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my
son, which I did bear.
22
And the other woman said, Nay; but the living
is
my son, and the dead
is
thy son. And this said, No; but the dead
is
thy son, and the living
is
my son. Thus they spake before
the king.
23
Then said the king, The one saith, This
is
my son that liveth, and thy son
is
the dead:
and the other saith, Nay; but thy son
is
the dead, and my son
is
the living.
24
And the king said,
Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
25
And the king said, Divide the
living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
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.
27
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it:
she
is
the mother thereof.
28
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and
they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God
was
in him, to do judgment.
CHAPTER KINGS 4
So king Solomon was king over all Israel.
2
And these
were
the princes which he had; PrAzariah
the son of Zadok the priest,
3
Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son
of Ahilud, the recorder.
4
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
was
over the host: and Zadok and
Abiathar
were
the priests:
5
And PrAzariah the son of Nathan
was
over the officers: and Zabud the
son of Nathan
was
principal officer,
and
the king’s friend:
6
And Ahishar
was
over the household:
and Adoniram the son of Abda
was
over the tribute.
7
And Solomon had twelve officers over all
Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made
provision.
8
And these
are
their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
9
The son of Dekar, in
Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:
10
The son of Hesed, in Aruboth;
to him
pertained
Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:
11
The son of Abinadab, in all the region of
Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
12
Baana the son of Ahilud;
to him
pertained
Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from
Beth-shean to Abel-meholah,
even
unto
the place that is
beyond Jokneam:
13
The son of Geber, in
Ramoth-gilead; to him
pertained
the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which
are
in Gilead; to
him
also pertained
the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and
brasen bars:
14
Ahinadab the son of Iddo
had
Mahanaim:
15
Ahimaaz
was
in Naphtali; he also took
Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
16
Baanah the son of Hushai
was
in Asher and in Aloth:
17
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
18
Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
19
Geber the
son of Uri
was
in the country of Gilead,
in
the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og
king of Bashan; and
he was
the only officer which
was
in the land.
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