1 Kings 3:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

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  • Job 24:13-17 : 13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths. 14 The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief. 15 The eye of the adulterer waits for twilight, saying, No eye shall see me, and disguises his face. 16 In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light. 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows 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 everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.
  • John 3:20 : 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    21And when I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I had borne.

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

    23Then the king said, The one says, This is my son that lives, and your son is the dead; and the other says, No; but your son is the dead, and my son is the living.

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

    17And one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I gave birth to a child with her in the house.

    18And it came to pass the third day after I had given birth, that this woman also gave birth: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, only we two in the house.

    19And this woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17-20
    4 verses
    78%

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

    18And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to remind me of my sin, and to kill my son?

    19And he said to her, Give me your son. And he took him out of her arms, and carried him up into the loft where he stayed, and laid him upon his own bed.

    20And he cried to the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, have You also brought calamity upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?

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

    16And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, you shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your maidservant.

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

    18And when the child was grown, it happened one day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

    19And he said to 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
    3 verses
    75%

    25And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

    26Then the woman whose the living child was, spoke to the king, for her heart yearned for her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and do not kill it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor yours, but divide it.

    27Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and do not kill it: she is the mother thereof.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6And your maidservant had two sons, and the two fought together in the field, and there was none to separate them, but one struck the other, and killed him.

    7And, behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they said, Deliver him who struck 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 extinguish my last remaining ember, and shall not leave to my husband either name or remnant on the earth.

  • Ruth 4:16
    73%

    16Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap, and became his nurse.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

    29So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him: and she has hidden her son.

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    72%

    20And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said to her, Fear not; for you have borne a son. But she did not answer, nor did she regard it.

  • Exod 2:2
    71%

    2And the woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.

  • Ruth 3:14
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:30-32
    3 verses
    71%

    30And the mother of the child said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. 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. Therefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awake.

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

  • 2 Sam 12:22
    70%

    22He said, While the child was alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell if God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

  • Ruth 3:8
    70%

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

  • Exod 1:16
    70%

    16And he said, When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools; if it is a son, then you shall kill him: but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.

  • 2 Kgs 4:36-37
    2 verses
    70%

    36And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she came in to him, he said, Take up your 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 harsh toward her young, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain, without fear;

  • Job 31:18
    69%

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

  • Jer 20:17
    69%

    17Because he did not slay me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great with me.

  • Matt 2:14
    69%

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

  • Hos 2:3
    69%

    3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

  • 1 Sam 1:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    26And she said, Oh my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman that stood by you here, praying to the LORD.

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

  • Matt 2:20
    69%

    20Saying, Arise, take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for those who sought the young child's life are dead.

  • 2 Sam 12:16
    69%

    16David therefore pleaded with God for the child; and he fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the ground.

  • 2 Sam 12:18
    69%

    18And it came to pass on the seventh day, the child died. The servants of David were afraid to tell him the child was dead: for they said, While the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us: how then will he vex himself, if we tell him the child is dead?

  • Deut 28:56
    69%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture 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,

  • Exod 2:6
    68%

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