1 Kings 3:20

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So she got up in the middle of the night, took my son from my side while I was asleep, and laid him in her arms. She then placed her dead son in my arms.

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  • Job 24:13-17 : 13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they do not recognize its ways nor stay on its paths. 14 At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief. 15 The adulterer waits for twilight, saying, 'No one will see me,' and he disguises his face. 16 In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light. 17 For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
  • Ps 139:11 : 11 If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'
  • Matt 13:25 : 25 But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.

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  • 1 Kgs 3:21-23
    3 verses
    90%

    21When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I looked more closely at him in the morning light, I saw that it was not the son I had borne.

    22The other woman said, 'No, the living one is my son, and the dead one is yours.' But the first woman insisted, 'No, the dead one is your son, and the living one is mine.' And so they argued before the king.

    23The king said, 'This one says, “My son is the living one, and your son is the dead one,” while the other says, “No, your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.”'

  • 1 Kgs 3:17-19
    3 verses
    89%

    17One of them said, 'My lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was there with me.'

    18On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. We were together, and there was no one else with us in the house—just the two of us.

    19During the night, this woman's son died because she lay on him.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-20
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    78%

    17After this, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick. His illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

    18She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, man of God? Have you come to bring my sin to remembrance and to kill my son?"

    19Elijah said to her, "Give me your son." He took the boy from her arms, brought him up to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed.

    20Then he cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy upon the widow I am staying with by causing her son to die?"

  • 2 Kgs 4:16-21
    6 verses
    75%

    16Then Elisha said, "At this time next year, you will be holding a son in your arms." She replied, "No, my lord, man of God, do not deceive your servant."

    17But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the appointed time the next year, just as Elisha had told her.

    18The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.

    19He said to his father, "My head! My head!" His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."

    20The servant carried the boy to his mother, and the child sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

    21She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.

  • 1 Kgs 3:25-27
    3 verses
    75%

    25The king said, 'Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other.'

    26The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, 'Please, my lord, give her the living child! Do not kill him!' But the other said, 'Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!'

    27Then the king gave his ruling: 'Give the living child to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother.'

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6Your servant had two sons. They were fighting in the field, with no one there to separate them, and one of them struck the other and killed him.

    7Now the whole family has risen against your servant. They say, 'Hand over the one who killed his brother so that we may put him to death for taking his brother’s life. We want to destroy the heir as well.' They will extinguish my remaining ember, leaving neither name nor remnant for my husband on the earth.

  • Ruth 4:16
    73%

    16Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became his nurse.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29
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    28Then the king asked her, "What is your problem?" She replied, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

    29So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day, I said to her, 'Give me your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden her son."

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    72%

    20As she was dying, the women attending her said, 'Don’t despair, you have given birth to a son.' But she did not answer or pay attention.

  • Exod 2:2
    71%

    2The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.

  • Ruth 3:14
    71%

    14So she lay at his feet until morning but got up before anyone could recognize another. For he said, 'Let it not be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.'

  • 2 Kgs 4:30-32
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    71%

    30But the boy’s mother said, 'As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.' So he got up and followed her.

    31Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, 'The boy has not awakened.'

    32When Elisha arrived at the house, there was the boy, lying dead on his bed.

  • 2 Sam 12:22
    70%

    22David answered, 'While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, 'Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.''

  • Ruth 3:8
    70%

    8In the middle of the night, the man was startled and turned over; there was a woman lying at his feet!

  • Exod 1:16
    70%

    16"When you help the Hebrew women give birth and observe them on the birthing stools, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-37
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    70%

    36Elisha called Gehazi and said, 'Call the Shunammite woman.' So he called her, and when she came, he said, 'Take your son.'

    37She came, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.

  • Job 39:16
    69%

    16She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain because she has no fear.

  • Job 31:18
    69%

    18but from my youth I raised him as a father would, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

  • Jer 20:17
    69%

    17For he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever pregnant.

  • Matt 2:14
    69%

    14So Joseph got up, took the child and His mother during the night, and departed for Egypt.

  • Hos 2:3
    69%

    3Say to your brothers, 'My people,' and to your sisters, 'She has received mercy.'

  • 1 Sam 1:26-27
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    69%

    26She said, 'Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.

    27I prayed for this boy, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him.

  • Matt 2:20
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    20saying, 'Get up, take the child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead.'

  • 2 Sam 12:16
    69%

    16David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying on the ground in sackcloth.

  • 2 Sam 12:18
    69%

    18On the seventh day, the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, 'While the child was still alive, we spoke to him but he would not listen to us. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.'

  • Deut 28:56
    69%

    56The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter.

  • Exod 2:6
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    6She opened it and saw the child—behold, the baby was crying. She felt compassion for him and said, 'This is one of the Hebrew children.'