1 Kings 3:20

Then arose she, in the middle of the night, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid was sleeping, and laid it in her own besom,—but, her dead son, laid she in, my, bosom.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 son died in the night,—because she overlaid it.

21And, when I arose in the morning, to give suck unto my child, lo! it was dead! but, when I looked at it narrowly in the morning, lo! it was not, my son that I had borne.

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Cross References

Job 24:17For, in the case of all such, morning to them is the death-shade, For, to be recognised, is a death-shade terror.

Matthew 13:25and, while men were sleeping, his enemy came, and sowed over darnel, in among the wheat,—and away he went.

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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