פּירוש אויף מלכים א 3:23

“The king said: One says, this is my son that is alive, etc.” [3:23]. The king repeated what the two women said. That is to say, it is customary that when a judge wants to give a ruling that he repeats what they said. He wants to show that he understood what they said and wants to judge properly, according to their statements. From here we learn that every judge should repeat the arguments that each party had argued.³Radak, I Kings, 3:23.