1 Kings 3:21

And I arose in the morning to suckle my son, and he was dead: and, behold, I considered him in the morning, and, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.

In Context

20And she arose in the middle of the night, + 3:20 Heb. and Alex. + 'while thine handmaid slept.'and took my son from my arms, and laid him in her bosom, and + 3:20 Gr. caused to sleep.laid her dead son in my bosom.

22And the other woman said, No, but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. So they spoke before the king.

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Cross References

Genesis 21:7And she said, Who shall say to Abraam that Sarrha suckles a child? for I have born a child in my old age.

Lamentations 4:3Gimel. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.

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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