Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”
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Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother.”
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Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
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Then the king answered and said: 'Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.'
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give…
1Ki 3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she [is] the mother thereof.
Ver. 27. She is the mother thereof.] As appeareth by her natural affection. Ownness maketh love. Prolem quisque amat non quia pulchram, sed quia suam.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As is evident from her natural and motherly affection…
As is evident from her natural and motherly affection to the child, which she had rather have alienated and given away from her than destroyed.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And all Israel heard of the judgment which the…
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged,.... In the above case; the decision of it was divulged throughout the land, and the fame of it was spread everywhere:
and they feared the king; reverenced him as a wise, judicious, and faithful king, and feared to do anything of a criminal nature, as perceiving that he was so sagacious and penetrating, that he would discover it quickly, and bring them to shame and punishment:
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for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment; that God had put more than ordinary wisdom into him, to make a right judgment in causes that came before him, and finish them in the most just and equitable manner.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain She is the mother - As is evident from…
She is the mother - As is evident from her natural affection to the child, which she had rather have given away from her, than destroyed.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Ki 3:27-28. She is the mother — As is…
1Ki 3:27-28. She is the mother — As is evident from her natural affection to the child, which she had rather have given away from her than destroyed. Wisdom of God — Divine wisdom, with which God had inspired him for the government of his people.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. Give her the living child] Not referring to…
27. Give her the living child] Not referring to the woman who had last spoken as the sequence of the clauses might lead us to expect. The king no doubt pointed to the mother who was desirous at all cost to keep the child alive.
The late Dr Bernard had a most ingenious explanation of the construction of this passage. The king, he said, was pondering the words of the two women. At last he broke forth in the language of the mother who had said ‘Give her the living child and in no wise slay it.’ And to that sentence, taken as representative of the person who had spoken it, he adds his own decision, ‘She is the mother thereof.’
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Then the king answered and said (He simply echoes…
Then the king answered and said (He simply echoes the exact words of the mother. This is clear from the fact that the word dWlynatus, "the one born," here and in ver. 26 rendered child," is a very unusual one), Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it (The LXX, which reads "Give the child to her who said, Give it to her," etc., obscures the evidently designed repetition) she is the mother thereof (Heb. she, his mother).
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