“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
3:25 Said - Though with a design far above the reach of the two women,or of the people present, who probably with horror expected the executionof it.
3:27 She is the mother - As is evident from her natural affection tothe child, which she had rather have given away from her, than destroyed.
3:28 Wisdom of God - Divine wisdom with which God had inspired himfor the government of his people.