C. F. Keil and Franz Delitzsch on 1 Kings 3:27

1Ki 3:27

Solomon saw from this which was the mother of the living child, and handed it over to her.Grotius observes on this: “The ἀγχίνοια of Solomon was shown by this to be very great. There is a certain similarity in the account of Ariopharnis, king of the Thracians, who, when three persons claimed to be the sons of the king of the Cimmerii, decided that he was the son who would not obey the command to cast javelins at his father’s corpse. The account is given by Diodorus Siculus.”