1 Kings 3:24-28

24Then the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king.

25Then the king said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to the one [woman] and half to the other.”

26Then the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for she was deeply moved over her son, “O my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; cut him!”

27Then the king said, “Give the first woman [who is pleading for his life] the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother.”

28When all [the people of] Israel heard about the judgment which the king had made, they [were in awe and reverently] feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was within him to administer justice.