Holy Scripture
1 Kings 3:28
A church father on this verse
“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
Original
28And all Israel heard this judgment which the king judged, and they feared before the king; because they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to execute judgment.
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In context
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.
— 1 Kings 3:28 —