1 Kings 3:27

Then the king answered and said [He simply echoes the exact words of the mother. This is clear from the fact that the word יָלוּד — natus , "the one born," here and in 1 Kings 3:26 rendered " child ," is a very unusual one], Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it [The LXX ; which reads "Give the child to her who said, Give it to her," etc; obscures the evidently designed repetition] she is the mother thereof [Heb. she, his mother ] .