1 Kings 3:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then sayde the King, She sayth, This that liueth is my sonne, and the dead is thy sonne: and the other sayth, Nay, but the dead is thy sonne, and the liuing is my sonne.

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

    20And she rose at midnight, and tooke my sonne from my side, while thine handmaide slept, and layde him in her bosome, and layde her dead sonne in my bosome.

    21And when I rose in the morning to giue my sonne sucke, beholde, he was dead: and when I had wel considered him in the morning, beholde, it was not my sonne, whom I had borne.

    22Then the other woman sayd, Nay, but my sonne liueth, and thy sonne is dead. Againe she sayde, No, but thy sonne is dead, and mine aliue: thus they spake before the King.

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

    24Then the King said, Bring me a sworde: & they brought out a sworde before the King.

    25And the King sayde, Deuide ye the liuing child in twaine, & giue the one halfe to the one, and the other halfe to the other.

    26Then spake the woman, whose the liuing child was, vnto the King, for her compassion was kindled toward her sonne, and she sayde, Oh my lorde, giue her the liuing childe, & slay him not: but the other sayde, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but deuide it.

    27Then the King answered, and sayde, Giue her the liuing childe, and slay him not: this is his mother.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28Also the King said vnto her, What ayleth thee? And she answered, This woman sayde vnto me, Giue thy sonne, that we may eate him to day, and we will eate my sonne to morowe,

    29So we sod my sonne, and did eate him: & I saide to her the day after, Giue thy sonne, that we may eate him, but she hath hid her sonne.

  • 2 Sam 14:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    5Then the King sayd vnto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am in deede a widow, and mine husband is dead:

    6And thine handmayd had two sonnes, & they two stroue together in the fielde: (and there was none to part them) so the one smote the other, and slew him.

    7And beholde, the whole familie is risen against thine handmayde, and they sayde, Deliuer him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the soule of his brother whome hee slewe, that we may destroy the heire also: so they shall quenche my sparkle which is left, and shall not leaue to mine husband neither name nor posteritie vpon the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
    71%

    17And the one woman sayd, Oh my lorde, I and this woman dwell in one house, and I was deliuered of a childe with her in the house.

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

    10And the King sayde, Bring him to me that speaketh against thee, and he shall touche thee no more.

    11Then said she, I pray thee, let the King remember the Lorde thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer many reuengers of blood to destroy, lest they slay my sonne; he answered, As the Lord liueth, there shal not one heare of thy sonne fall to the earth.

    12Then the woman said, I pray thee, let thine handmayde speake a worde to my lord the King; he sayd, Say on.

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

    39And when the King came by, he cried vnto the King, and said, Thy seruant went into the middes of the battel: and beholde, there went away a man, whom another man brought vnto me, and sayd, Keepe this man: if he be lost, and want, thy life shall go for his life, or els thou shalt pay a talent of siluer.

    40And as thy seruant had here and there to do, he was gone: And the King of Israel said vnto him, So shall thy iudgement be: thou hast giuen sentence.

  • 2 Sam 13:35
    70%

    35And Ionadab said vnto the King, Behold, ye Kings sonnes come: as thy seruant sayd, so it is.

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

    18Then the King answered, and said vnto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall aske thee; the woman sayde, Let my lord the King now speake.

    19And the King said, Is not the hand of Ioab with thee in all this? Then the woman answered, and sayd, As thy soule liueth, my lord the King, I will not turne to the right hande nor to the left, from ought that my lorde the King hath spoken: for euen thy seruant Ioab bade mee, & he put all these wordes in the mouth of thine handmayde.

  • Prov 31:2
    69%

    2What my sonne! and what ye sonne of my wombe! and what, O sonne of my desires!

  • 2 Kgs 8:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5And as he told the King, howe he had restored one dead to life, behold, the woman, whose sonne he had raised to life, called vpon the King for her house and for her land. Then Gehazi sayd, My lorde, O King, this is the woman, and this is her sonne, whom Elisha restored to life.

    6And when the King asked the woman, shee told him: so the King appoynted her an Eunuch, saying, Restore thou all that are hers, and all the fruites of her landes since the day shee left the land, euen vntill this time.

  • 1 Kgs 17:23
    69%

    23And Eliiah tooke the childe, and brought him downe out of the chamber into the house, and deliuered him vnto his mother, and Eliiah sayd, Behold, thy sonne liueth.

  • 1 Sam 17:56
    69%

    56Then the King sayde, Enquire thou whose sonne this yong man is.

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

    12Now therefore come, and I will now giue thee counsell, howe to saue thine owne life, and the life of thy sonne Salomon.

    13Go, and get thee in vnto King Dauid, and say vnto him, Didest not thou, my lorde, O King, sweare vnto thine handmaide, saying, Assuredly Salomo thy sonne shall reigne after me, & he shal sit vpon my throne? why is then Adoniiah King?

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

    20And thou, my lorde, O King, knowest that the eyes of all Israel are on thee, that thou shouldest tell them, who shoulde sit on the throne of my lord the King after him.

    21For els when my lord the King shall sleepe with his fathers, I and my sonne Salomon shalbe reputed vile.

  • Gen 44:27
    68%

    27Then thy seruant my father sayde vnto vs, Ye knowe that my wife bare me two sonnes,

  • Gen 44:30
    68%

    30Nowe therefore, when I come to thy seruant my father, & the childe be not with vs (seeing that his life dependeth on the childes life)

  • Luke 15:11
    68%

    11He sayde moreouer, A certaine man had two sonnes.

  • 2 Sam 14:16
    68%

    16For the King wil heare, to deliuer his handmayde out of the hande of the man that woulde destroy mee, and also my sonne from the inheritance of God.

  • 1 Kgs 2:23
    68%

    23Then King Salomon sware by the Lorde, saying, God doe so to me and more also, if Adoniiah hath not spoken this worde against his owne life.

  • 1 Kgs 1:24
    68%

    24And Nathan saide, My lorde, O King, hast thou said, Adoniiah shall reigne after mee, and he shall sit vpon my throne?

  • John 4:51
    68%

    51And as he was nowe going downe, his seruants met him, saying, Thy sonne liueth.

  • 2 Kgs 4:19
    68%

    19And he sayde to his father, Mine head, mine head. Who sayd to his seruant, Beare him to his mother.

  • 1 Kgs 2:15
    68%

    15Then he said, Thou knowest that the kingdome was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reigne: howbeit the kingdome is turned away, and is my brothers: for it came to him by the Lord.

  • Eccl 4:15
    68%

    15I behelde all the liuing, which walke vnder the sunne, with the second childe, which shall stand vp in his place.

  • Deut 21:15
    68%

    15If a man haue two wiues, one loued and another hated, and they haue borne him children, both the loued and also the hated: if the first borne be the sonne of the hated,

  • 2 Sam 12:19
    68%

    19But when Dauid sawe that his seruantes whispered, Dauid perceiued that the childe was dead: therefore Dauid sayde vnto his seruants, Is the childe dead? And they sayd, He is dead.

  • 2 Sam 14:3
    67%

    3And come to the King, and speake on this maner vnto him, (for Ioab taught her what she should say).

  • 1 Kgs 22:37
    67%

    37So the King died, and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the King in Samaria.

  • 2 Sam 13:33
    67%

    33Nowe therefore let not my lord the King take the thing so grieuously, to thinke that all ye Kings sonnes are dead: for Amnon only is dead.

  • 2 Sam 12:23
    67%

    23But now being dead, wherefore shoulde I now fast? Can I bring him againe any more? I shall goe to him, but he shall not returne to me.

  • 1 Sam 22:16
    67%

    16Then the King sayd, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy fathers house.

  • 1 Kgs 1:27
    67%

    27Is this thing done by my lord the King, & thou hast not shewed it vnto thy seruant, who should sitte on the throne of my lorde the King after him?

  • 2 Sam 13:30
    67%

    30And while they were in the way, tydings came to Dauid, saying, Absalom hath slaine al the Kings sonnes, & there is not one of them left.