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

1 Kings 3:25

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 16-28)

An instance is here given of Solomon’s wisdom, to show that the grant lately made him had a real effect upon him. The proof is fetched, not from the mysteries of state and the policies of the council-board, though there no doubt he excelled, but from the trial and determination of a cause between party and party, which princes, though they devolve them upon their judges, must not think it below th...

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