1 Kings 3:20

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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.

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  • Job 24:13-17 : 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
  • Ps 139:11 : 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
  • Matt 13:25 : 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
  • John 3:20 : 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

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  • 1 Kgs 3:21-23
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    90%

    21And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.

    22And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

    23Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.

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

    17And 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.

    18And 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.

    19And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-20
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    78%

    17And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

    18And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?

    19And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

    20And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

  • 2 Kgs 4:16-21
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    75%

    16And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.

    17And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

    18And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

    19And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

    20And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

    21And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.

  • 1 Kgs 3:25-27
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    25And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

    26Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

    27Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    6And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.

    7And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.

  • Ruth 4:16
    73%

    16And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29
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    28And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

    29So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    72%

    20And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

  • Exod 2:2
    71%

    2And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

  • Ruth 3:14
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    14And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.

  • 2 Kgs 4:30-32
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    71%

    30And the mother of the child said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her.

    31And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.

    32And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.

  • 2 Sam 12:22
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    22And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

  • Ruth 3:8
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    8And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.

  • Exod 1:16
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    16And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-37
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    36And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.

    37Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.

  • Job 39:16
    69%

    16She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

  • Job 31:18
    69%

    18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

  • Jer 20:17
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    17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

  • Matt 2:14
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    14When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:

  • Hos 2:3
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    3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

  • 1 Sam 1:26-27
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    69%

    26And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

    27For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

  • Matt 2:20
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    20Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.

  • 2 Sam 12:16
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    16David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.

  • 2 Sam 12:18
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    18And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?

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    56The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

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    6And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.