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She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
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The Legal Conundrum
Commentator John Gill highlights the legal puzzle at the heart of this accusation. The mother claims the switch happened while she was asleep, which makes her testimony difficult to prove. How could she know what happened if she was sleeping? This detail underscores why the case was so difficult, requiring Solomon's divine wisdom rather than simple evidence.
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Reformed Baptist
And she arose at midnight Perceiving what she had done, that she had overlaid her child, and it was dead; either through …
Presbyterian
An instance of Solomon's wisdom is given. Notice the difficulty of the case. To find out the true mother, he could not try which the child loved be…
