1 Kings 3:20

And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

In Context

19And this woman's child died in the night; because she had lain upon it.

21And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; and I considered it in the morning, and behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.

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Cross References

Job 24:17For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

Matthew 13:25but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel amongst the wheat, and went away.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 3:17-28

The Wisdom of Solomon. ( b. c. 1014.) 16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 20… Read the whole commentary →

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