1 Kings 3:25
“The two women indicate to us the church and the synagogue. The latter, after it tried to suppress the sacrament of human redemption and persecuted and killed the Redeemer through false accusations, claims, nevertheless, that its child should still be alive, that is, that the Jewish people should still be pleasing and…”
Source: Septuagint
25And the king said, Divide the live child, the suckling, in two; and give half of it to one, and half of it to the other.
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23And the king said to them, Thou sayest, This is my son, even the living one, and this woman’s son is the dead one: and thou sayest, No, but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son.
24And the king said, Fetch a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
— 1 Kings 3:25 —
26And the woman whose the living child was, answered and spoke to the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), and she said, I pray thee, my lord, give her the child, and in nowise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor hers; divide it.
27Then the king answered and said, Give the child to her that said, Give it to her, and by no means slay it: she is its mother.