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1 Kings 3:18-22

1 Kings 3:18-22 NCV

Three days later this woman also gave birth to a baby. No one else was in the house with us; it was just the two of us. One night this woman rolled over on her baby, and he died. So she took my son from my bed during the night while I was asleep, and she carried him to her bed. Then she put the dead baby in my bed. The next morning when I got up to feed my baby, I saw that he was dead! When I looked at him more closely, I realized he was not my son.” “No!” the other woman cried. “The living baby is my son, and the dead baby is yours!” But the first woman said, “No! The dead baby is yours, and the living one is mine!” So the two women argued before the king.

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