²⁴ And the king said, “Get me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king. ²⁵ Then the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.” ²⁶ Then the woman whose son was the living one spoke to the king, for ^[a](A)she was deeply stirred with compassion over her son and said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!”