3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

 3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.

 3:22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

 3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.

 3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

 3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

 3:26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

 3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

 3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.

 4:1 So king Solomon was king over all Israel.

 4:2 And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,

 4:3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder.

 4:4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:

 4:5 And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend:

 4:6 And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.

 4:7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.

 4:8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:

 4:9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:

 4:10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:

 4:11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

 4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:

 4:13 The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:

 4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:

 4:15 Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

 4:16 Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:

 4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:

 4:18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:

 4:19 Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.