1 Kings 3:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king.

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  • 1 Kgs 3:23-27
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    23Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living.

    24Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king.

    25And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.

    26Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.

    27Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.

  • 1 Kgs 3:16-21
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    85%

    16Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;

    17And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.

    18And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only.

    19In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

    20And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.

    21And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-30
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    28And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.

    29So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.

    30Then the king, hearing what the woman said, took his robes in his hands, violently parting them; and, while he was walking on the wall, the people, looking, saw that under his robe he had haircloth on his flesh.

  • 2 Sam 14:5-8
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    74%

    5And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

    6And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.

    7And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

    8And the king said to the woman, Go to your house and I will give orders about this.

  • 2 Sam 14:10-13
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    10And the king said, If anyone says anything to you, make him come to me, and he will do you no more damage.

    11Then she said, Let the king keep in mind the Lord your God, so that he who gives punishment for blood may be kept back from further destruction and that no one may send death on my son. And he said, By the living Lord, not a hair of your son's head will come to the earth.

    12Then the woman said, Will the king let his servant say one word more? And he said, Say on.

    13And the woman said, Why have you had such a thought about the people of God? (for in saying these very words the king has put himself in the wrong because he has not taken back the one whom he sent far away.)

  • 2 Sam 14:18-19
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    18Then the king said to the woman, Now give me an answer to the question I am going to put to you; keep nothing back. And the woman said, Let my lord the king say on.

    19And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman in answer said, By the life of your soul, my lord the king, it is not possible for anyone to go to the right hand or to the left from anything said by the king: your servant Joab gave me orders, and put all these words in my mouth:

  • Prov 31:2
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    2What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?

  • 2 Kgs 8:5-6
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    5And while he was giving the king the story of how Elisha had given life to the dead, the woman whose son had come back to life came to the king with a request for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, My lord king, this is the woman and this is her son, whose life Elisha gave back to him.

    6And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to one of his unsexed servants, saying, Give her back all her property, and all the produce of her fields from the day when she went away from the land up till now.

  • 2 Sam 14:2-3
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    2And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

    3And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say.

  • 1 Kgs 17:23
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    23And Elijah took the child down from his room into the house and gave him to his mother and said to her, See, your son is living.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-20
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    17Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.

    18And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?

    19And he said to her, Give your son to me. And lifting him out of her arms, he took him up to his room and put him down on his bed.

    20And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?

  • 2 Kgs 4:30
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    30But the mother of the child said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not go back without you. So he got up and went with her.

  • Ezek 23:2
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    2Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:

  • Exod 1:16
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    16When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.

  • Eccl 4:15
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    15I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.

  • 2 Kgs 4:1
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    1Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

  • 2 Sam 14:16
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    16For the king will give ear, and take his servant out of the power of the man whose purpose is the destruction of me and my son together from the heritage of God.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
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    37And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.

  • Deut 21:15
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    15If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:

  • 1 Kgs 20:39
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    39And when the king went by, crying out to him he said, Your servant went out into the fight; and a man came out to me with another man and said, Keep this man: if by any chance he gets away, your life will be the price of his life, or you will have to give a talent of silver in payment.

  • 1 Kgs 1:13
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  • Exod 1:18
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  • 1 Kgs 1:17
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    17And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.

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    22Then King Solomon made answer and said to his mother, Why are you requesting me to give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah? Take the kingdom for him in addition, for he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, are on his side.