1 Kings 3:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 Kgs 3:19-26
    8 verses
    90%

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

    20And 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.

    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.

    24And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:28
    78%

    28And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had made; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.

  • 2 Sam 14:10-13
    4 verses
    77%

    10And the king said, Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you anymore.

    11Then she said, I pray you, let the king remember the LORD your God, that you would not allow the avenger of blood to destroy anymore, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.

    12Then the woman said, Let your maidservant, I pray you, speak one word to my lord the king. And he said, Speak on.

    13And the woman said, Why then have you thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king speaks this thing as one who is at fault, in that the king does not bring home again his banished.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Exod 1:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

    17But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.

    18And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, Why have you done this thing, and have saved the male children alive?

  • 1 Kgs 3:17
    72%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 14:16
    72%

    16For the king will hear, to deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • 2 Sam 14:5-8
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    5And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

    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.

    8And the king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.

  • 2 Kgs 4:30
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    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.

  • 2 Sam 14:18-19
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    18Then the king answered and said to the woman, Do not hide from me, I pray you, the thing that I shall ask you. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

    19And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman answered and said, As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken: for your servant Joab, he commanded me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant:

  • 1 Kgs 17:23
    70%

    23And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the room into the house, and delivered him to his mother: and Elijah said, See, your son lives.

  • 1 Kgs 1:12
    70%

    12Now therefore come, let me, I pray you, give you advice, that you may save your own life, and the life of your son Solomon.

  • 1 Kgs 17:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    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?

  • Prov 31:2
    70%

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

  • 2 Kgs 8:6
    70%

    6And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, "Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now."

  • Matt 14:8-9
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    70%

    8And she, having been prompted by her mother, said, Give me here the head of John the Baptist on a platter.

    9And the king was sorry: nevertheless, because of the oath, and those who sat with him at the table, he commanded it to be given to her.

  • 1 Kgs 2:20
    69%

    20Then she said, I desire one small petition of you; please do not deny me. And the king said to her, Ask on, my mother, for I will not refuse you.

  • 1 Sam 4:20
    69%

    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.

  • Judg 8:19
    69%

    19And he said, They were my brothers, even the sons of my mother: as the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.

  • 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:

  • Josh 2:13
    68%

    13And that you will save my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

  • 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.