Graphic Bible · Scene 13 of 15

The true mother urgently begs for the living child to be spared, reaching toward the king with empty hands while the rival stands apart. Infant is safe and fully wrapped.
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1 Kings 3:26

A mother pleads for life

Wisdom and the Two Mothers · 1 Kings 3

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26Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her compassion was stirred for her son, and she said, "Please, my lord, give her the living child, and do not put him to death." But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours; cut him in two."

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