1 Kings 3:23

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The 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.”'

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  • 1 Kgs 3:20-22
    3 verses
    94%

    20So 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.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:24-27
    4 verses
    83%

    24Then the king said, 'Bring me a sword.' So they brought a sword before the king.

    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 Kgs 6:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    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."

  • 2 Sam 14:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    5The king said to her, "What is troubling you?" She replied, "Truly, I am a widow; my husband has died.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
    71%

    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.'

  • 2 Sam 14:10-12
    3 verses
    71%

    10The king replied, "If anyone says anything to you, bring them to me, and they will not bother you again."

    11She said, "Let the king swear by the LORD your God that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy and that they will not eliminate my son." The king said, "As surely as the LORD lives, not one hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground."

    12Then the woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Speak."

  • 1 Kgs 20:39-40
    2 verses
    70%

    39As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him and said, 'Your servant went into the middle of the battle, and suddenly a man brought another man to me and said, "Guard this man. If he is missing, your life will be for his life, or you will pay a talent of silver."

    40But while your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.' The king of Israel said to him, 'That is your sentence; you have pronounced it yourself.'

  • 2 Sam 13:35
    70%

    35Jonadab said to the king, 'Look, the king’s sons have come. It has happened just as your servant said.’

  • 2 Sam 14:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18Then the king said to the woman, "Do not hide anything I ask you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king speak."

    19The king asked, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all of this?" The woman answered, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, it is true. Your servant Joab instructed me and put all these words into the mouth of your servant."

  • Prov 31:2
    69%

    2What, my son? What, son of my womb? What, son of my vows?

  • 2 Kgs 8:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5As Gehazi was recounting how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had restored came to cry out to the king about her house and her land. Gehazi said, "My lord the king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life!"

    6The king questioned the woman, and she told him her story. Then the king assigned an official to her and said, "Restore everything that belongs to her, as well as all the produce of the field from the day she left the land until now."

  • 1 Kgs 17:23
    69%

    23Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, 'Look, your son is alive.'

  • 1 Sam 17:56
    69%

    56The king said, 'Find out whose son this young man is.'

  • 1 Kgs 1:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12"Now go, please, let me advise you so that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.

    13Go to King David and say to him, 'My lord the king, did you not swear to your servant, saying, "Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne"? Then why has Adonijah become king?'

  • 1 Kgs 1:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20Now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

    21Otherwise, when my lord the king rests with his ancestors, I and my son Solomon will be treated as offenders.

  • Gen 44:27
    68%

    27Then your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.'

  • Gen 44:30
    68%

    30So now, if I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since his life is so closely bound up with the boy's life—

  • Luke 15:11
    68%

    11Then He said, 'There was a man who had two sons.'

  • 2 Sam 14:16
    68%

    16For the king will hear me and deliver me from the hand of the man who seeks to destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.'

  • 1 Kgs 2:23
    68%

    23Then King Solomon took an oath by the LORD: 'May God punish me ever so severely if Adonijah has not made this request at the cost of his own life!

  • 1 Kgs 1:24
    68%

    24Then Nathan said, "My lord the king, have you declared that Adonijah will reign after you and sit on your throne?

  • John 4:51
    68%

    51While he was on his way down, his servants met him and told him, "Your son is alive!"

  • 2 Kgs 4:19
    68%

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:15
    68%

    15He said, 'You know that the kingdom was mine and that all Israel turned their faces to me to make me king. But the kingdom has been transferred and has become my brother's, for it was the LORD's will.'

  • Eccl 4:15
    68%

    15I saw all the living who walk under the sun following the youth, the second one, who replaces him.

  • Deut 21:15
    68%

    15If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife,

  • 2 Sam 12:19
    68%

    19David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized that the child was dead. 'Is the child dead?' he asked. 'Yes,' they replied, 'he is dead.'

  • 2 Sam 14:3
    67%

    3Then go to the king and speak to him as I instruct you." And Joab put the words into her mouth.

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
    67%

    37So the king died and was brought to Samaria, where they buried him.

  • 2 Sam 13:33
    67%

    33Now, my lord the king, don’t take to heart the report that says all the king’s sons are dead. Only Amnon is dead.

  • 2 Sam 12:23
    67%

    23But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.

  • 1 Sam 22:16
    67%

    16The king said, 'You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and your whole family.'

  • 1 Kgs 1:27
    67%

    27Is this decision from my lord the king, without letting your servants know who is to sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?"

  • 2 Sam 13:30
    67%

    30While they were on the way, word came to David: 'Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons; not one of them is left.'