1 Kings 3:23-28
23 24 Divide.This was apparently a very strange decision; but Solomon saw that the only way to discover the real mother was by the affection and tenderness should would necessarily shew to her offspring. The plan was tried, and succeeded; and it was a proof of his sound judgment, penetration, and acquaintance with the human heart, or rather, of his extraordinary and supernatural wisdom. See ver. 28. The two following instances are in some faint manner to be compared to Solomon's decision, inasmuch as they also work upon the human sympathies. Suetonius, in his Life of the emperor Claudian, tells us, that this emperor discovered a woman to be the real mother of a young man, whom she refused to acknowledge, by commanding her to marry him, the proofs being doubtful on both sides; for, rather than commit incest, she confessed the truth. Diodorus Siculus also informs us, that Ariopharnes, king of Thrace, being appointed to decided between three young men, each of whom professed to be the son of the deceased king of the Cimmerians, and claimed the succession, discovered the real son by ordering each to shoot an arrow into the dead body of the king: two of them did this without hesitation; but the real son of the deceased monarch refused. Pr 25:8 her bowels.Ge 43:30; Isa 49:15; Jer 31:20; Ho 11:8; Php 1:8; 2:1; 1Jo 3:17yearned. Heb. were hot.Ps 39:3give her.Ro 1:31; 2Ti 3:3 27 feared.Ex 14:31; Jos 4:14; 1Sa 12:18; 1Ch 29:24; Pr 24:21the wisdom.9-12; Ezr 7:25; Ec 7:19; Da 2:21,47; 5:11; 1Co 1:24,30; Col 2:3in him. Heb. in the midst of him. to do.Ps 72:2,4Proverbs 15:2
tongue.23,28; 12:23; 13:16; 16:23; 25:11,12; Ps 45:1; Ec 10:12,13; Isa 50:4poureth. Heb. belcheth, or, bubbleth.Ps 59:7Proverbs 16:23
heart.15:28; 22:17,18; Ps 37:30,31; 45:1; Mt 12:34,35; Col 3:16teacheth. Heb. maketh wise.Ecclesiastes 5:2
not rash.Ge 18:27,30,32; 28:20,22; Nu 30:2-5; Jud 11:30; 1Sa 14:24-45Mr 6:23thing. or, word. for.Ps 115:3; Isa 55:9; Mt 6:9let thy .3,7; Pr 10:19; Mt 6:7; Jas 3:2Ecclesiastes 5:6
thy mouth.1,2; Jas 1:26; 3:2before.Or, "before the messenger," {hammalach,} the priest whose business it was to take cognizance of vows and offerings. Le 5:4,5; Ge 48:16; Ho 12:4,5; Mal 2:7; 3:1; Ac 7:30-35; 1Co 11:101Ti 5:21; Heb 1:14it was.Le 5:4-6; 27:9,10destroy.Hag 1:9-11; 2:14-17; 1Co 3:13-15; 2Jo 1:81 Peter 3:15
sanctify.Nu 20:12; 27:14; Isa 5:16; 29:23and be.Ps 119:46; Jer 26:12-16; Da 3:16-18; Am 7:14-17; Mt 10:18-20Lu 21:14,15; Ac 4:8-12; 5:29-31; 21:39,40; 22:1,2-5; Col 4:62Ti 2:25a reason.1Sa 12:7; Isa 1:18; 41:21; Ac 24:25the hope.1:3,4; Col 1:5,23,27; Tit 1:2; Heb 3:6; 6:1,18,19with.2,4; 2Ti 2:25,26fear. or, reverence.
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